RELIGIOUS PILGRIMS WITH SHAVED HEADS GREEN ROSHAN IN AL BALAD MAGIC LAMP MADE OF PEWTER ENJOYED THIS POST?  SIGN UP  FOR FUTURE POSTS DELIVE...

A lamb in the back of a pickup truck is a common sight here in Saudi Arabia, especially around the holidays. This past week was one of t...

Jeddah's airport has four terminals - North, South, New, and Hajj.  Right now due to the Corona Virus, all international flights hav...

The native Hamadryas Baboon of Saudi Arabia resides in the mountainous areas, mostly in the southern and western regions of the country....

Seeing religious pilgrims around Jeddah is a fairly common sight.  Because Jeddah is the main gateway to two of Islam's holiest cit...

The city of Jeddah is the major gateway to two of the holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina. Consequently, millions of religious pil...

Jeddah is the largest seaport on the Red Sea. It is the gateway to the holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, which are located in t...

A religious pilgrim walks along a street of Jeddah as he talks on his mobile phone.  Each year millions of people travel to Mecca, Saudi...

The Jeddah airport is called the King Abdulaziz International Airport and has been in operation since 1981.  This photo features a small...

A religious pilgrim walks along the streets of Jeddah.  Sighting of religious pilgrims are common here as Jeddah is the country's ma...

All male religious pilgrims making the pilgrimage to Mecca wear the same thing: a simple white outfit made of two plain pieces of cloth ...

Religious pilgrims are a common sight around Jeddah.  They come to perform religious pilgrimages year round.  Hajj is the one time of the...

The Hajj holidays have just concluded - Hajj is the religious pilgrimage which requires Muslims around the world to travel to Mecca at le...

On a recent stroll through Jeddah's oldest part of the city called Al Balad, I encountered these men wearing traditional clothing who we...

Jeddah was first settled as a small fishing village on the Red Sea in about 500 BC. As the closest seaport to both Mecca and Medina, two of...

When a Muslim man performs the required pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in his lifetime, he is allowed to refer to himself as "Ha...

People begging on the streets and illegal immigration are social problems you might not associate with Saudi Arabia. But many Muslims fr...