AlUla Saudi Arabia with @BlueAbaya - AlUla - UNESCO World Heritage Site

Описание: AlUla Saudi Arabia with Laura Alho from Blue Abaya and the AlUla Royal Commission. AlUla is the official spelling, though it is often written as Al Ula. Laura Alho is a travel blogger and Instagrammer (@BlueAbaya) from Finland based in Saudi Arabia. Interview filmed on location in Al Ula, northwest Saudi Arabia. Also featured Hegra and Elephant Rock. AlUla is the southernmost city of the Nabataean Kingdom, where Petra in Jordan is the northernmost Nabataean city. Saudi Arabia opened for tourism September 2019.
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Transcript:
So my name is Laura and I'm from Finland and I work here in AlUla, actually, with the Royal Commission of AlUla for the marketing departments. AlUla is in Northwest Saudi Arabia. And it's a part of the Nabataean Kingdom. It's the same civilization that built and lived in Petra in Jordan. And this is their southern most biggest city. Well, I came actually 14 years ago to work here and then I just fell in love with the country. I came to AlUla in 2008, the first time, and I visited this site. Back then it was very much remote place to come to. It's still very peaceful and quiet here. And it's a very unique location that just sort of really intrigued me and that made me really want to stay in Saudi longer and explore more. They also have a social media channel called Blue Abaya. And this is about Saudi tourism in general. And I started that back in 2010. And that was because there was kind of like a lack of information, I couldn't find, I was trying to travel myself, I couldn't find the information I was looking for. So then I thought I might as well do it myself. So I just started to blog then. So on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, it's @BlueAbaya, is the handle. Now we're standing in front of an outcrop in Hegra, called the Jabal AlBanat. Jabal AlBanat means the mountain of the girls or the daughters. That's because most of the tombs in this area are actually owned by women. How do we know that is because we have it carved on top of the tombs. So we have the information, who owned this tomb, who carved it, who's allowed to use this tomb. So it's very interesting details that we can find here. And on this outcrop, there's 30, 30 tombs, of which 26 are owned by women. And, in the entire Hegra, there is over 100 tombs that have this decorative facades. And most of them we know when they were carved and who owned them. Well, I would say it's one of the like most amazing places to be right now, to be honest. In Saudi, we have so much space here. It's clean air, it's, you know, you can come here, and it's like COVID-friendly. You have like this whole place to yourself. We have the luxury here to travel safely around. And not only here in Hegra, we have so many other places in AlUla that are very interesting. Actually the history goes back thousands and thousands of years here, the human history. So this has been traditionally a place where people would stop by, on trade routes from Yemen, up until Damascus until recent times. So it's like a hub of people coming together. That's AlUla, now and in the past. So if you wanna find out more about this area, you can go to experienceAlUla.com, and you'll find all the activities and all the heritage sites in this site and all the information, how to book. So @experienceAlUla also on the social media. It's the handle for that.