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In this desert in SAUDI ARABIA - only the dead remain | S8, EP41

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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!

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?

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

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

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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