By this point in the prolonged journey, I was roughly 5 or so weeks in, and still no signs of homesickness - I suspect that's what you get when you are able to call anywhere home. Home therefore was, at this point in life, a hotel in Jeddah, the nation's second city, and located in the southern part of Saudi Arabia, a nation long known as an oil-rich country with a few strict and conservative guidelines on how life here should be lived. In search of culture and otherworldliness though, seeing Saudi Arabia through the eyes of a tourist was a different proposition, and the city tour started life in Jeddah's stunning historic district, surely the most satisfying collection of all-in-one-place ancient buildings the nation has to offer. In a nutshell, there are colours, various buildings
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