Saudi Arabia in Pictures

[Saif al-Arab]

. . #عقبة_الابناء مناظر من الجمال الطبيعي تأسر قلبگ طول الطريق . . من #تصويري يوم الجمعة 14-3-1437هـ . . #مصوري_الباحة #طبيعة_الباحة #الباحة_عشق_اهل_الجنوب #الجنوب_بعدسة_أبنائه #jnoub #aljnoobpro by Ahmad Suliman, on Flickr

. . أرعدي يا سحابه فوق هاك التلال . . #منظر من شفا قرية الفُرية و #البرق يضرب #جبل_اثرب والامطار تهطل على #تهامه . . #مصوري_الباحة #طبيعة_الباحة #مصوري_الجنوب #تغذية_بصرية #الباحة_سحر_الطبيعة #الباحة_عشق_أهل_الجنوب #برق #بلجرشي by Ahmad Suliman, on Flickr

. . #عقبة_الابناء من الاماكن اللي اعشق تصويرها . فطبيعتها وزوايها مختلفة عن أي مكان أصور فيه . . #مصوري_الباحة #الباحة_عشق_اهل_الجنوب #jnoub #الجنوب_بعدسة_أبنائه by Ahmad Suliman, on Flickr

. . قرية #ذي_عين الأثرية . . #تصويري يوم السبت 15-3-1437هـ . . #مصوري_الباحة #تراث #طبيعة_الباحة #jnoub #aljnoobpro #الجنوب_بعدسة_أبنائه #الباحة_عشق_اهل_الجنوب #قرية_ذي_عين by Ahmad Suliman, on Flickr

Al Kindy Square by waleed hider, on Flickr

من الماضي by ابراهيم الزارعي, on Flickr

السلمانية by Hussein Ali, on Flickr

Trip to Hofuf in Saudi Arabia by rougetete, on Flickr

Trip to Hofuf in Saudi Arabia by rougetete, on Flickr

Land جبل القارة by Flower's.Lover, on Flickr

G view6 by Dr.Hassan Alkhars, on Flickr

المدرسة الأولى بالأحساء by درويش darwish aldarwish, on Flickr

نخيل الاحساء by Saeed ALmodhi, on Flickr

qaser and the Port Aqeer by Ali AlMana, on Flickr

_DSC1299 by Ayman Shehab, on Flickr

The first school Hofuf المدرسة الأولى بالهفوف by A. Alwosaibie, on Flickr

Nawaf & Aljazi by Ebtesam., on Flickr

الارز الاحسائي by hassan ali, on Flickr

ابتسامة ابناء عودة سدير by محمد السويح, on Flickr

Thanks:aziz اعجز عن نسيانك في لحظه سكون..وحتى بين ضجيج البشر اعجز عن ذكراك.. -ماشاء الله by reemah mo7aimeed, on Flickr

 

[Saif al-Arab]

 

[Saif al-Arab]

 

[Gomig-21]

Tremendous pictures, brother! Wow, absolutely incredible.

Heaven on earth.

Imagine the name of this raptor is the Pharaoh Eagle Owl?

http://www.birdsofsaudiarabia.com/2013/11/ascalaphus-sub-species-of-pharaoh-eagle.html

Fantastic! Keep them coming, brother.

 

[Human One]

What is this place?

 

[Gomig-21]

What is this place?

Incredible isn't it? To carve out a geometrically accurate facade of a 3-4 story building with crowned, cornice moldings out of the mountain rock is unreal. So many treasures like that in KSA.

 

[Human One]

Incredible isn't it? To carve out a geometrically accurate facade of a 3-4 story building with crowned, cornice moldings out of the mountain rock is unreal. So many treasures like that in KSA.

Yes but, what's the name of it? It's like some other places in the world, like Petra in Jordan.

 

[Gomig-21]

Yes but, what's the name of it? It's like some other places in the world, like Petra in Jordan.

Mada'in Saleh or Al Hijra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mada'in_Saleh

 

[Human One]

There's a reason it reminded me of Petra. Thanks.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

What is this place?

A tiny part of the Mada'in Saleh World UNESCO Heritage site in Hijaz, as brother @Gomig-21 rightly mentioned. Parts of which were built over 3000 years ago.

Yes but, what's the name of it? It's like some other places in the world, like Petra in Jordan.

That is because those ancient heritage sites of which a significant portion are World UNESCO Heritage Sites today were built by the same people; Nabateans one of the many ancient Semitic peoples whose original homeland was Hijaz.

Nabatean World UNESCO Heritage Sites can be found in KSA, Jordan (Petra as you mentioned - voted as the 8th wonder of the world by millions of people across the world not many years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6269207.stm

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Show...e_Site-Petra_Wadi_Musa_Ma_an_Governorate.html

Syria (Bosra) and Israel/Palestine (Avdat, Shivta, Mamshit, Haluza) and Egypt (Dahab, Sinai).

The Nabataeans, also Nabateans (/ˌnæbəˈtiːənz/; Arabic: الأنباط‎ al-ʾAnbāṭ , compare Ancient Greek: Ναβαταῖος, Latin: Nabataeus), were an Arab[1] people who inhabited northern Arabia and the Southern Levant. Their settlements, most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu, now called Petra,[1] gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Arabia and Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert. Trajan conquered the Nabataean kingdom, annexing it to the Roman Empire, where their individual culture, easily identified by their characteristic finely potted painted ceramics, was adopted into the larger Greco-Roman culture. They were later converted to Christianity. Jane Taylor, a writer, describes them as "one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world".[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans

Some traditional clothing from Southern KSA:

 

[Gomig-21]

The great Hoopoe! Part of the woodpecker family I believe.

You can easily see how it gets its funny name here.

Featured in the Common Birds of Oman & Qatar and of course, Saudiya. http://www.birdsoman.com/

 

[Saif al-Arab]

 

[Saif al-Arab]

 

[Saif al-Arab]

 

[Gomig-21]

Beautiful pics, Sharif.

Look at that beautiful Peregrine falcon. The most famous of all falcons and fastest animal in the world.
I've caught and banded many of these up this way in the North East US during migration season, have also flown several of them with my falconer buddies and it's one of the most exciting birds to watch hunt, along with the prairie falcon and of course, the gyrfalcon. I've done a few of those and plan others in the coming year.