This is so UNREAL | Saudi Arabia | [E59]

Another thing here in Saudi Arabia is that you have 28 different species of scorpions. Yes, scorpions. Wow, this is surreal. Yeah, let's see if we can find any elephants here. Hello all my beautiful people. This is the house I'm staying in right there. I got in touch with a guy from Couchsurfing and he offered me to stay in this house, in this farm. It's a date farm all by myself because he's away for holiday. So he just left a key and let me stay here. Isn't that incredible? Yeah, I did some washing earlier right there. And Sarek, she's hanging out there as usual. But date farm. These are the one, they're the youngest one. Then over there you have the old one, the full-grown tree. So here you have the the babies. Babies on the way to grow. And the date palm is known as the tree of life in Middle East and it's the national symbol of Saudi Arabia. Yep, you see there behind these tiny ones you have the big ones. Apparently the Bedouin tribes here in Middle East, the one of the Bedouin tribes eat, the most percentage of dates have the lowest rate of cancer. Yep, you see dates, they're so good here, they're delicious. I only tried them in Sweden and yeah this is completely another level. So not in shape. So great practice here. Another thing here in Saudi Arabia is that you have 28 different species of scorpions. Yes, scorpions. And you have both the deadly one and the not deadly one. So you gotta be a bit careful because they lay under the sand hanging there. But yeah, still gotta be careful. Especially for the the shepherds and the camel farmers, they get a lot of stings. They're hanging out there a lot. And me too. Sun camping from here and there. Nah, I'm careful. Down there you have the farm. Yellow house there, that's where I'm living. And then you have all the date trees there. Further away you see the grown, grown-ups. Sorry, I have a fly on my, ah, go away fly. And then over there you have the big ones. So I'm living almost maybe 40 minutes from Al-Ula, the town. Which is, my house is there and Al-Ula is right there. Yep, isn't it incredible? Pretty amazing rock formation here. Look. I will go and check out the the dates over here. The big trees, the older trees. Here we have them, the tall ones. Apparently they can grow up to 35 meters. These guys are not 35 meters but they're tall and older. But I can't see any fruits. Maybe they're not that old or they they're picked. Yeah, now we see. Up there you see these light green things. That are the dates or they're becoming the dates. I'm going into Al-Ula and I will check some things over there. Unfortunately, like it's a, it's a UNESCO world heritage here. I was supposed to visit that one but it is fully booked the whole week. And I can't wait a week for a ticket to go there. So I will do everything except that. It's called the Hegra. And yeah, you do a tour there with a bus and have a look at the different sites. But I can't. So first I will do is to go to a mirror. You will see. Let's go. I have a light and we have two really dark ones or many dark camels. Arabic camels. Oh look. Good morning. They look so funny. Isn't this pretty amazing, eh? It's a lovely thing. Do you speak English? To go to the to the mirror thing to have a coffee. Check that. Guys, isn't this incredible? Ah, look at that one. I would like to climb that one. Rock climbing. Imagine. Well, to come to this place, you sort of need to have a reservation. I didn't. He was just very kind to let me in because there's a gate there. So that's cool. Let's see how it looks like. This is so surreal. Okay, where I'm going here then? Is it right or straight forward? I don't know. I think this is straight. There it is. I don't think you can see it yet, but let's get closer. Wow, this is surreal. Hello. Hello. How are you? We're good. How are you? Good. Are you traveling? I'm traveling. From where? From Sweden. Ah, that's great. Yes. Are you from here? No, we are from Colombia and I work here. Yes, I came from Sweden with this one. Really? Going to Nepal. Wow. That's a long trip. Long journey. Well, enjoy. Thank you. You too. Nice to meet you. Bye. Are you posting your travel? Yes, I do. Yeah, I'm going to meet you. Isn't this pretty cool? It's actually a concert hall made of mirrors. I think they could see me inside. It's closed, but it is open. I think people could see me, obviously. Hi. It's pretty cool to see all the ancient rock formation around here facing this modern building. Yeah. Their reflection is just mad. The shining star. I know. People want to take pictures of that all the time. This is so cool. It's a concert hall, as I said. And next to it, you have a hotel as well, if you want to make a reservation there for 5000 Saudi Riyal. Never seen something like this before in my life. Apparently, I read about Saudi Arabia. They're trying to make a whole GCC. It's going to become the biggest tourist destination in the whole world. But they're trying to be as sustainable as possible. I read that they don't want to make the same mistake as Dubai and Egypt because they have a lot of mass tourism. So Saudi Arabia instead is focusing on sustainable tourism, which is amazing. There's so many projects around this country. I will tell you more later. Yeah. Let's see if we can find any elephants here. Or I mean, singular elephant. You will understand soon. All right. Bumpy road. There it is. Here you have it. The elephant of Alula. And behind that, you have a cafe as well. So if you want to go inside, you have to wait until five o'clock. And you can probably watch the sunset from here. But so cute. The elephant of Alula. All right. We got to leave this elephant alone now for the other tourists coming here. Yep. That's the plan at least. Motorcyclists. That's cool. First motorcyclist I've seen here. How do I get in here? All righty. We're going to go to the old town here with Vandar. So this is the north parking. Could we take any shuttles? We have to walk. We can walk. Yeah, we can walk. To Alula old town. Let's go and check it out. This is the beginning of it. And it's all made of like water and sand, the material of the houses you see here. And you have to like rebuild them a little bit every year because when it's rain, it falls down a little bit. So you always try to fix it a bit. Yeah, it's incredible. This is the market area here in the old town. This is the one I couldn't visit because all the tickets are sold out unfortunately. Another time. Today's a Friday, so it's less people here. It's not much and everything is closed, but I like it. I can just stroll around and enjoy it. It's beautiful. It's apparently really nice during the night as well to visit with all the lights and the air. More vibrant, but I like this. Whoa! Look at all the details. And the coffee. And the details on the doors is incredible. Wow. Inside all these doors, there were people living before. And then you had like a bridge in between, so they passed there to visit each other. Here comes all the rainwater. Yep. The new part and the old part. This is all restored down there. You can see here, this is the original staircase. And it's like 2,600 years old. And then you have the restored one right here. But this is the original stuff. It's this. This is the only one. And they called it Hammamah of the Babs. So because of that, they struggle. They don't, they can't get the electricity and the water with the normal way. Because of that, the government give him a land, which is that one. The new, the new town. They moved to the new town. We found an old mosque here. Looks like this. This is an old door. Wow. We sneaked into one of the places, the original things here, because the other things are pretty touristic. But it's one place where you can visit all the original things. Another mosque. And here is the, the place where you go and scream all the prayers for the whole town up there. We entered one of the houses here. And in here, you stored your animals, probably sheeps. Stairway to the rooftop. And the roof is not finished. You put some mud on top and it's all good. But you see what the stairs, they are made of day trees and rocks. And then you have the living room, perhaps. Sitting here, chilling with your friends. So they're trying to make everything look a part of the nature here in Al-Ula. So for example, the fire extinguisher is in a box like this, with the colors of the nature. And then you have the electrical boxes. I don't know what you call it, but they cover them with a super nice pattern around. And yeah, they try to blend in with the nature as much as they can. Let's try this one. I'm not 100% sure if I'm right. I don't want to get stuck out here. I figured out I would like to have a tree to get some shade just for a second, because I'm boiling a bit. Yep, this tree looks perfect, actually. Let's go and sit under it for a little bit. Oh, it has a lot of shade. A beautiful tree. Oh, oi, oi, oi. I guess some shepherds are sitting here sometimes and having their little fire with the camels. Yeah. Incredible, eh? Bye-bye, beautiful tree. Thank you for the shade. Mission to find a road. I found a road. Okay, just gotta get through this sand. There we go. I will go visit the Rainbow Arch. You will see what it is. A little sneaky peek. What could it be? Finally, some gravel road with the camels on the side. I learned that the white camels doesn't give as much milk as the black camels. The black ones, they have much more milk, and they have more salt. Salty taste, the black camels, compared to the white ones. Oh my god, we have a camel baby here as well with the mama, and they're crossing. Sorry, oi, oi, oi. And the little baby boo. Yeah, not bad, eh? That is pretty cool. I will try to go underneath and see if we can take a picture there. I'm not sure. Do we know what writing it is? This is the Arabic up there. This is the new, yes. Arabic. But this, this. Unclear. Oh, what a lovely time I had in Alula. It's amazing. It's so cool. It's so surreal, everything, like with all the rock formations and going to that mirror house, the concert hall and everything. It's just amazing. Thank you so much for joining my adventure from Sweden to Nepal. Like, share, comment, and join my Patreon family as well. It's more behind the scenes, exclusive material. Take care, and I'll see you soon.