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hello
I have a few questions. We have 2 free weeks left when we are in aqaba. So maybe we want to drive to oman and UAE. Is it worth to drive all the way through Saudi-Arabia to see Oman and UAE?
I'm also interested in the distances in Saudi-Arabia. Is the shortest/fastest way from Aqaba to UAE 3000km? and is there anybody who knows the distance from oman (by example salalah) to aqaba?
Many thanks in advance
greetz brend
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Have you considered Sila-Haradh-Kharj-Riyadh-Buraidah-Hail-Jouf-Tabuk-Aqaba?
Riyadh National Museum - went there this morning, wish I had more time there, quite interesting!
Spare time in Jordan easy to kill, Wadi Rum (camp at Bair Ali), various Castles, Kings Highway, Roman sites. Smashing.
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Hi Bin Ridin, what is riding in Riyadh like? I made a decision to avoid the place as I heard the locals treat bike riders as targets! For my route, not going via Riyadh makes sense if I go via Damman to meet up with my biker mate, but I'd still appreciate any experience of local conditions.
My trip 'home' is starting to make loads of sense, the first part, through Saudi, Jordan and Syria will be 'in the camel hooves of Lawrence of Arabia', following the rough route of the Hejaz railway, then we swap over to being biker/divers as we hug the coast of the mediterranean and dive dive dive all the way to the top of the Adriatic, then we have to think of some other pastimes as we head through Budapest, Prague etc.....
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Hi Bin Ridin, what is riding in Riyadh like?
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I found Riyadh aggressively scary. Much worse than Sharjah where I ride every day or Delhi, Mumbai etc.
Think sexual repression and large, powerful cars and you get the idea. It was worth visiting for the Kingdom Centre but I wouldn't want to hang around there.
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I found Riyadh aggressively scary. Much worse than Sharjah where I ride every day or Delhi, Mumbai etc.
Think sexual repression and large, powerful cars and you get the idea.
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I'd say traffic in Riyadh is the worst followed closely by Jeddah and Dammam/Khobar. Not even comparable to the tame puttering around that the rest of the Gulf does  .
You need to ride like an aggressive cowboy treating the other cars like a bunch of cows, bulls and a few bears !!! Filtering constantly to keep yourself up and above the average speed limit of the herd makes sure you ride back home everyday.
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hello Bin Ridin
yeah it is right. these places are really great. but we have been at these places twice already so it is really spare time. so still consider if it is worth to drive saudi-arabia to see oman and UAE. a great option otherwise is to take the ferry from UAE to Iran and drive that way back to europe. but I don't know if it is safe. but that is maybe something for another thread.
thanks, brend
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a great option otherwise is to take the ferry from UAE to Iran and drive that way back to europe. but I don't know if it is safe.
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Brend, what safety concerns do you have? There are no specific dangers on the route you mention other than traffic.
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hello
I have a few questions. We have 2 free weeks left when we are in aqaba. So maybe we want to drive to oman and UAE. Is it worth to drive all the way through Saudi-Arabia to see Oman and UAE?
I'm also interested in the distances in Saudi-Arabia. Is the shortest/fastest way from Aqaba to UAE 3000km? and is there anybody who knows the distance from oman (by example salalah) to aqaba?
Many thanks in advance
greetz brend
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Oman is my favorite place in the Gulf, parts of it are beautiful.
I'd recommend flying to Oman and hiring a car there. Can you get transit visas OK? It's big miles from from Aqaba to Salalah, I drove from Riyadh to Muscat via Abu Dhabi and down the coast to Ras al Jinz and it was around 2250 km each way and took three days.
You'll be driving for a week there and back.
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