What is so incredible about this place is that there is nobody here
It's unbelievable
Ash Shamali, Saudi Arabia Season 8 - Eps. 41
Okay bye-bye
Good morning Internet
It is uh..
08:30 in the morning and welcome back to the channel
Welcome here in Saudi Arabia
On a quiet morning in a deserted town
This is a.. Al Shamli I think it's called
I am on my way to AlUla
In the last episode
Wait, so first I tried to leave Hail and I went like here
Then I had to turn back
Second attempt I went around like this and then something like that
And today I'm going to ride to AlUla which is about
It's about, about here I think in this area
So I stayed again in one of those uh, apartment hotels
So that means no breakfast
Ah here, can get some food
Are there foul?
Yes!
Hi
Hi
Thank you
Tea?
Tea!
That was delicious again
Okay all fueled up
Let's go
I've hit the dirt
See how this will go
Hello
A little bit of arabic
Problem? Problem?
No
Photo? - Yeah
Okay okay!
Okay
Goodbye!
Look at this
Oh, it is stunning here again!
It's like every stretch of desert really looks different right?
I felt like dark yellow sand dunes and then
Wadis
Palm Trees
Sandstones. Volcanic rocks
And so far this track is really good
I mean well, it's a little corrugated
But it's really not that bad
But I wonder for how long it's going to be so good so
Let's see how far I can go
Look at all these white camels
Apparently, those are the most expensive ones
And then they go further up in price when they have a nice face
I've been told
There's a whole herd of them there
This is a very nice track
Look how stunning it is here
Amazing
Wow
It's a bit windy but
Oh
Look at where I'll be staying tonight
This is so cool, look
I have a seating area outside here
And then this is my view
Okay, so here I have a little seating area
Here is my kitchen
Oh, this is so cool
And then here I will be sleeping
And I can look outside
At this amazing view
I think this must be the shower
Yes shower
What an amazing place right?
I'm so happy I found this place because the last couple of places where I stayed
Like those apartment hotels
Um, they were all so dark
Like it really, every time it felt like I was in a bunker
And I just really want to enjoy the outside a little bit and sit outside
And not have to cover up all the time as well, of course
I can't just like, walk on the streets with a t-shirt on
So now I can actually just spend some time outside which is really nice
the next morning...
All right! Good morning
It's 7:15 in the morning and today I am going to explore an amazing place around here
Which is called Hegra but I first need to get fuel
I was looking quite long to find this accommodation
I checked a few other places before
Oh, there's hot air balloons
You probably can't see that
So I was riding up and down and at some point I was like, this place is quite far out of town
And I realized.. I should have gotten fuel
Anyway, so I'm going to try and make it to the fuel station first
But what a place right?
Wow, in the morning light
This is just..
Gorgeous, look at this
Oh
Wow, look at the sun coming up behind the rocks there
Wow
Almost all the rock formations here are sandstone
Like these ones here
And just the erosion patterns are just spectacular
What a way to start today isn't it?
Could this be any better
There is the sun coming up
Wow
Yeah
Thank you
I have arrived at the siq and this was the most spiritual place of Hegra
And it was was highly guarded so you had to be of very high standing to be allowed to pass here
So what you see up there is ancient Arabic
And they can tell because this writing didn't have the dots yet on the letters
And then of course you also see some camels there
But you can see how high up those inscriptions are
I wonder how they.. got through that
So all of these are shrines for the gods
You see the main god was the eagle
You see that on the top here but they were worshiping several gods
See on this side is a shrine dedicated to three different gods
Here was another one
And this right here was a meeting hall
Only for the elite of the civilization
They would come here and have meetings
Incredible
How this was all carved out of the rocks right?
So I made it to Hegra and this was an very important site for the Nabataean civilization
They had their capital in Petra in Jordan about 500 kilometers to the northwest of here
That's obviously a very famous place
So this place was a very important trading place for them
Uh for the trade of incense and they chose this place because it's surrounded by mountains
which obviously offers a form of protection but there's also a lot of water in this valley
So there is not much left of the original houses that they lived in
I mean they moved here in 2,500 BC but what is left are the tombs
So there are 130 tombs here in Hegra
And you can tell by how the tomb looks like how wealthy that person was
So there are very, very simple tombs which are basically just a hole in the rock
And then the more exquisite and the more ornaments on the entrance of the tomb
It will show you that that person had more money to get a good tomb
And then most tombs will have an eagle on the top
Because that's the main god of the Nabataeans
And then on top of that you see a square
And that square has the inscriptions of who is allowed to be buried there
This is a very ancient writing but it can be deciphered so that's how they know now who was buried in each of the tombs
Look at the sheer size of these tombs
It is amazing
And then most tombs will have like these stairways on the top
And they're not quite sure what it means there are two theories
Either it could mean that, that would be a stairway to heaven or just a decoration
So the tombs at Petra in Jordan are even bigger than these on ones
But what is so incredible about this place is that there is nobody here
It's unbelievable in Petra I believe there the crowds are massive and here
I'm just here
With all these dunes
It's incredible
So I am now inside a tomb and what's so fascinating about this one
Is that, it looks like it has a window there but that was the original door
So they came in and then they dug down the tomb down below
And then later this door was created
So and this is where the dead would be
So they would only create a new space once there was a new person
Because it was all custom made so if they knew the size of the person
They would custom build a place for this person
So this is the biggest one there is
It's the only one the only tomb that has four columns
And this tomb is 22 meters tall
Can you believe that
See there's another eagle on the top
And inscription
The amount of work it must have been..
To create these tombs it's really fascinating and I believe that this one wasn't even finished yet
The person who they made it for passed away already
And when that happens the people that are building the tomb, they'll get worried that they might not get paid anymore
Because the person passed away, so that's why they stopped
So they will build this tomb like from top to bottom
And that's how they know it wasn't finished yet because the bottom wasn't finished
And also from the inside apparently it is empty
All right, let's check out these ones because there is a very, very special one here
So counting from the left there is one tomb, two, three and then there's a fourth one
See, from here you can see it, it's that very small opening there
And that is a very, very fascinating tomb
So that tomb behind me only got discovered about 10 years ago
when a big storm blew away the sand that was covering the entrance
And when they went inside they discovered 80 bodies that were buried in that tomb
That had been undisturbed for 2,000 years
Amazing right?
See so you can see it's only a small door
But one of the people buried there was a lady, they call her Hinat
And she was a very prominent figure in Nabataean culture
So I'm not allowed to go inside these ones
So here you can see really well that some people that didn't have so much money
They had very simple tombs and then see this person probably had a little bit more funds
So then they get a beautiful ornament
So because of that incense trade that stretched all the way until the coast with Yemen
The Nabataean culture got quite wealthy especially in this area
So over time the tombs also got bigger and more ornamental and people just spend more money on the tombs
But it's just so fascinating that all there's left now are the tombs of the dead
So it truly is a city of the dead
I just can't get enough of it, it's such a fascinating place
Unreal, and especially in the morning light it's just so beautiful right?
Wow! That was amazing!
I absolutely love that
What an incredible place right?
I'm heading back to where I'm staying now
To have a breakfast and then I'm going to explore town a little bit more
This is such a lovely road
This looks absolutely delicious
And then they also gave me a bowl of fruit
How nice is this right?
Time to go explore
Because there's already something really quite cool which is very near from here
That I want to go check out first
Wow
Fantastic
Oh, I can already see it right over there
Spectacular, wow
You are looking at a concert hall in the desert
That is covered with 9,000 panels, mirror panels
It is the largest mirrored building in the world
Yah
It just looks so unreal
Except that it is real through there
Look at that there is the entrance
Amazing
You didn't see that coming, did you now?
Never seen anything like this before
Frankie is dirty
I would really like to find a place to wash Frankie today
I think the old girl deserved that
That was the mirrored concert hall
Apparently some pretty big artists have performed here like Mariah Carey
Woo, I found a nice track
See if I can get in that canyon there a little bit
And now I'm obviously riding without luggage which is 10 times easier
No weight on the back
The colors are beautiful right?
Like the red and yellow and green
Oplah, hee hee
Wow
I just had to stop and pause here for a second
To just look around
It is so beautiful everywhere
I am absolutely loving this
And.. riding without luggage in sand so much better
So much better
Ah, on my left here, you can't really see it
But behind here they're growing palm trees
Welcome to Saudi Arabia!
Thank you so much
You are welcome!
One more?
Thank you, one is enough!
Welcome to Saudi Arabia
You are welcome, where are you from?
Holland
Nice to meet you!
Is it very safe.. to to travel?
Yeah
Saudi Arabia.. very safe -Safe, very safe
But you are from Riyadh then
We are from Riyadh, yes
Me and him are from Riyadh
But currently, we are staying here
This place is..
Thank you.. thank you
Goodbye
Goodbye!
Look there
That's elephant rock
Do you see the elephant yet?
Look, looks like an elephant right?
That's really cool
I am in AlUla
With an amazing backdrop, oh
This is the old town
Can only go walking
So I am just going to walk around AlUla for a little bit
Explore it. The old town an..
Where I am now?
This is another really cool city to walk around
Look at this
I just love all the doors you know how they look like
Look at this street
How cool is this right?
It's also a lot cooler when you walk here because it's covered
Before I was just walking in the burning sun
This is a lot more pleasant
I think I go here
Or in here
Look they decorated the ceiling here with all these woven baskets
So now I'm kind of outside again, see
Maybe I can climb that
See, here you have a quite a nice view over old AlUla
So I've been walking in this area where they restored the roofs
But all of that hasn't been restored, it's all original
Goodbye! Thank you
I have a clean Frankie
That was about time
So I am going to make my way back to my caravan
That was an awesome day
I really enjoy this
So I'm going to end this video now
That was it for today
I really hope you like this video too
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And then I'll see you in the next video
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