Hofuf and the Al Qara Mountain Caves
October 15th 2009 Today eight of us headed two hours south of Dhahran to a town called Hofuf. It's about an hour south of Abqaiq, which is another Saudi Aramco facility. We rented two large Suburbans and two drivers for the day. It was an amazing experience and yet another "I'm not in Kansas" moment for me.
Hofuf used to be the capital of the Eastern Province (the area along the Persian Gulf) until 1953. At
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