It Didn’t turn out as I Expected | Saudi Arabia | [E67]

Amazing people! Hi, we love Swedes! Hello! In my ears. Why is he screaming? Oh my god, what's happening here? I think this is one of the best coffees I've had. Like, outside coffee. In a long time. And when I'm traveling here, I don't have to think about going early in the morning. So I can travel during the day time. It's no problem. It's when I'm going down to the capital and all that, it's gonna be morning rides and stuff like that. But for a change, it's nice to be up here. And it's so peaceful, you know. It's so peaceful here. Just me and the birds and some monkeys up there. Yeah, not much. Few insects. Yep, this is how it looks when you're camping. Things everywhere. When I was about to go to sleep yesterday, I saw something moving in the dark. I was like, ooh, what is that? And then I went towards it like, hey, hey, hey, hey. Who are you? And then I saw it was a cat, a kitty cat. She was really shy, so I gave her some cheese. And I think she's happy because she ate everything. I put it right there, over there. But it's all gone, so that's good. Mission succeeded. I'm gonna drink up my coffee and then we hit the road. I'm just gonna go up one section and then I will have a look because it was a little bit trickier to get the other part. It's really rocky. Let's see. I think this is okay. I need a little speed. Yeah! Good girl. All right. Jacket on. Good morning, all my beautiful people. I don't think I said that. I hope you're all doing well. Another day here in Saudi Arabia. Up in the mountains. On the west coast. Or the west side right now, not the coast. Check this mountain. It must be a paradise for the baboons. Very powerful. Checkpoint again. Up in the mountains. Tunnel party! Put lights on. Yeah, they are so on. Hello, Mr. Baboons. Having their dinner here. The rain has arrived. So I put my jacket on. It's pretty light rain. But I put it on as well. It's protecting from the wind. Which is great. It's chilly up here. 2,200 meters above the sea level right now. 20 minutes left until my destination. Let's go! Look at all the fog. This is apparently a foggy area. So you gotta be careful. If it's too much fog, you have to drive 15 kilometers per hour. Oh my! It's running off the garbage. 15 kilometers per hour. It's foggy here. It says a lot on the sign in English as well. Which is great. Some places it's only in Arabic. Some places it's only in English. Which is interesting. Like when you go into a tunnel, it says turn lights on. But nothing in Arabic. I'm going to a waterfall down here. See if there is any water there. First of all. It's so steep. To the left. This is incredible. I got these tips from my friend to go here to the waterfall. I have no idea how it looks like. It's a good stop to have breakfast as well. Because I'm starting to get really hungry right now. My energy is going away. So we gotta see the waterfall and stop and eat. And that's it. Okay. Yeehaw! This is my first park in Saudi Arabia actually. It's like you have different sections here where you can sit. Put your blanket and then you have your little own room and you sit there and eat. You have toilets. It's super modern. Oh there are some motorcyclists. Cool. It's very nice. It started raining a bit. Doesn't matter. Some thunder. Yeah. It's very cool. They have a lot of music there guys on the motorcycles. Gorgeous. I had some breakfast as well. Some bread with some cheese. It was all good. But over here comes the waterfall. Let's go and check it out. How are you? Very good. Sweden. Both. I love Sweden. But I love Saudi Arabia as well. It's interesting. I'm traveling by motorcycle. I came in motorcycle from Sweden. I went through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. And then I went Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait. All alone. It's beautiful. Very nice. How do you know this area? It's my friend. In Taif. He told me about this place. Come here. Where are you going? I go maybe 1 o'clock. Another area. Cooking. That's very kind. Thank you so much, man. It started to hail. There are small rooms. You sit in and eat. Handicapped people. And then you put your blanket and you eat food. Brilliant. He told me to go down this way. To go to Al-Baha. This way and it's another waterfall down here. It was nice but honestly you don't see too much when you're on the top of the waterfall. I like to be in the bottom. Here we can view it better. Look. There were so many people here before. There we have it. Pretty, pretty. Motorcyclists. Wow, we have motorcyclists. Amazing. Hello. Sweden. Swed. Scandinavia. The thunder is only one and only. We're hanging here under the shelter. It's right here. Hail again. It's coming so much water here. Flooding. The rain stopped almost now. It's just a little bit of rain but that was crazy. Thunder and the rain. It's so tough out here. I'm glad I'm with the bikers. They're from the United Bikers Club here in Saudi Arabia. You see it's been raining a lot. Okay. I had to stop in a cafe and do some work and to dry a little bit from all that rain. Tonight I will stay with a host just outside of Al-Baha. That's going to be nice to stay inside because I'm a bit wet. My shoes are super wet. So I can dry and perhaps continue my camping adventure later on. But yeah. It's very foggy here. It's been super super foggy. I could only drive like 10 km per hour. I couldn't see even like 2 meters in front of me in a while there. It's pretty scary. So I stopped and did some work. Well needed. Okay. I guess the police, no? They're driving these cool Toyotas. All the government cars are like this. I want one of them. When I come there I will eat something. Food, food, food in my belly. Let's see what I'm going to eat. Because my host is working until midnight and I'm probably going to be asleep because I'm so tired from the night. Let's continue. It's only 27 minutes until his apartment. So I made it to the place which is here. And it's a couchsurfer who is taking me under his wings. So I will stay with him for probably one night. And I'm just waiting for his roommate to wake up. So I thought I go to a restaurant in the meanwhile and just eat, chill, relax. Why not? Let's do that. And then we go inside. But this is a really nice building. Look. The area is nice. And just down there we have the TV center. I got a falafel in my stomach so it's time to end this vlog. Sarek is here under this roof. She's safe here. And yeah, I will go and sleep. Because I'm really tired from the rain and the thunder today. So I see you tomorrow. Beautiful people. Doing well. I am leaving our bar and go down to a castle. I will go down to a castle. Couple of hundred meters I guess. Room tour. There is a castle there. And then I will probably continue to towards at least Bahamas. The big city. So let's go there. Pack all my things. And there we go. Wow. There she is, my baby. I left my shoes outside as well because they had to dry. So I hope they are dry now. But we just put this down. Motorcycle travel is packing up, packing up, packing up, packing down. But my shoes here have become really really wet. But mostly dry. No, not really. Still a little bit wet. But what can we do? We just put our feet there and that's it. Yes, Sarek, what do you think? You need a wash? I think I saw some bird poop. Right there. Okay, let me pack all this and then we are ready to go. Eat some breakfast first of all with my host. And then I go. What do you call this bread? Tamis. And this? Foul. And this is egg. Okay, everything is on. I always put a ring here on top right now because up here in the mountains it rains from time to time so it's easy to put it out for a moment. So that's my solution at least. Okay, yes, I talk to you later. Yes, bye bye. Great, we got some water and one mandarin, so I'm happy. Pretty pleased. And then we're getting some fuel and then we're on the road again. Well, it didn't go as a plan because it's Friday and everything is closed. Things open at 1 PM, so one hour. So I had to go to the city, Al-Baha again, which is like 20 kilometers away and get fuel there and then go to the village. So I won't go through my awesome mountain road. Maybe on the way back, I don't know. I will find another great, amazing road to travel on, I'm sure. But that's how it is, I always forget it. Fridays it's closed. Or at least until afternoon. Yep, but I met a motorcyclist just behind me and he told me to go to Al-Baha and there are a few stations which are open. Let's go there. I think it's pretty closed. Yeah. So, problem is we need to wait until a fuel station is open, which is in like 20 minutes. So let's wait for that and then continue. So it's gonna be a late day. Anyway, it's okay. Alright. Fuel for Zarek, it's 1 o'clock. All good. Met some really cool bikers over there. So I will go and eat some lunch with them. And then we see. So I changed plans. I will go with these guys and have lunch with them next to the waterfalls. And yeah, get some information from them about the great roads and just hang out with some bikers. It's really cool. Ali in front of me, he's a local. He lives in this area. So he invited me to come for lunch and meet up with all the bikers from like Saudi Arabia. Super cool. And after that I will continue somewhere. I don't know yet if I will reach Abha or not. We will see. I will go here first and just meet the guys. And Ali in front of me, he has a BMW GS. Very nice bike. He's a camping lover as well. So I got so many ideas from him where to pitch my tent and a lot of things. I'm really happy for that. He loves traveling around the GCC area. That's cool. Pretty. So here we have a little nice waterfall out here. Super, super nice. Very, very cool. A lot of people. A lot of people hanging out. It's a huge waterfall here. Oh my god, I got so scared. So cute. Water circuits are very common here. Yes, except for the gold wing. A lot of people use them in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Alright, so next stop is going to be with the motorcyclists. We are going for the lunch now. What is he selling here? Look at this little bike. Some jam. All the flowers. It's so pretty and so green. A lot of water here. A Ford. I got stuck here. It was really nice. I was hanging out here with the guys. I think I used to camp in an area here and then I continue tomorrow. I don't know if I have time to watch the village today or do it early morning tomorrow. Plan change. That's how it is. Let's go with the flow. Unfortunately the castle is closed already so I don't know if I... I think I go there tomorrow when I wake up. Because now I have to find a camping spot and put up my tent and prepare everything for the dark. And especially why I want to go before the dark is to see the camping spot and to feel it. That's very important for me when I go out wild camping like this. Because in the dark I don't see if there are some obstacles or if there are baboons hanging out there. Now you're in the daylight to see everything clearly and you can make a judgement. So I do that first and I go to the castle tomorrow. In my ears. Why is he screaming? Oh my god, what's happening here? Is it burning or what? I thought it was an explosion. I guess it could have been an explosion. But how the police screamed when he was pointing. I thought something was burning and blowing up. We are dropping a lot from the top where were the guys, the motorcycle guys. It was 2500 meters and now we are at 1250 meters. Yes. Oh. Yeah, this is the spot. Oi, oi, oi. All my horses. This was like 10 out of 10 points. Oi, oi, oi. How do I get here then? Okay. Seriously, can I park here? Oh my god. Okay. No baboons. Just me. Okay. I can do that. Great. We nailed this view I would say. Wow. Down there you have one of the villages. And there is another one there. Another one there. And the mountains. And some kind of, I don't know what this is. Mountains. I am pretty sure I am going to pitch my tent around here. I park Zarek like this. So no car can come inside. That happened to me once. I parked like this. And I pitch my tent here. And suddenly a car came. And I thought it was running over me. With a car. It blocked the way as much as you can. Try to put your tent somewhere else where it can't go in the way for the cars. But it's a dead end. But still you never know. People can come at night and want to see the stars or anything. Stargazing. So. Park here. And you will sleep very, very well here. I am not sure if it's not going to come a storm. Which I don't believe. It's a little bit of wind and a breeze as well. Which is great. Over there. I saw another one. I made a judgement that this would be the spot. A little bit of wind so I can open the tent. Of course the view. 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