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Umroh - to Jeddah- 1

21 May 2013 - from Madinah back to Jeddah

Duncan MacDonald  
Jakarta  2  July   2013   

      We check out of the hotel in Madinah and travel by bus back to Jeddahl.

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Madinah
1: Madinah en route to Jeddah -enlarge
Madinah
2: Heavy moving equipment-enlarge
Madinah
3: Leaving the outskirts of Madinah-enlarge
to Jeddah
4: Some of the thousands of buses needed for the Haj-enlarge
to Jeddah
5: Madinah to Jeddah-enlarge
to Jeddah
6: To Jeddah -enlarge
to Jeddah
7: To Jeddah-enlarge
to Jeddah
8: Far away hills-enlarge
to Ryadd
9: To Jeddah-enlarge
to Jeddah
10: Country road-enlarge
to Jeddah
11: Thes rock formations are extremely old-enlarge
to Jeddah
12: My guess the sign says "Keep off the grass"-enlarge
to Jeddah
13: This looks like some sort of greenhouse or agriculture enterprise-enlarge
to Jeddah
14: This is the closest to what I would call 'bush'-enlarge
to Jeddah
15: Lots of moutains out there- -enlarge
to Jeddah
16: The sand hills are back-enlarge
to Jeddah
17: Date farm-enlarge
to Jeddah
18: Roadside township -enlarge
to Jeddah
19: A splash of colour is good-enlarge
to Jeddah
20: Back in the bush again-enlarge
to Jeddah
21: They've cultivated this ground - but what will they will grow there?-enlarge
Sheep
22: A mob of black sheep -enlarge
to Jeddah
23: Remnants of a volcanic cone -enlarge
to Jeddah
24: High tension towers, criss cross the country-enlarge
to Jeddah
25: Keep on trucking-enlarge
to Jeddah
26: Only 252 km to Jeddah -enlarge
to Jeddah
27: They are chopping something out of that hill-enlarge
to Jeddah
28: Another police station-enlarge
to Jeddah
29: Comfort stop about 5:45pm. We left Madinah at 3:00pm-enlarge
to Jeddah
30: A couple of tour busses arrived together- putting a strain on toilet facilities-enlarge
to Jeddah Shinta
31: Shinta (pointing) and friends rejoining our bus-enlarge
to Jeddah
32: Mechanic (red shirt) looks at overheating car engine-enlarge
to Jeddah
33: The solution - he just sprayed water on it-enlarge
to Jeddah
34: Prime mover, next to a sub-prime mover-enlarge
to Jeddah Abdullah
35: Tour guide Abdullah (with cat) in front of next set of toilets-enlarge
to Jeddah
36: Just another service station-enlarge
to Jeddah
37: A bunch of rocks never looked so good-enlarge
to Jeddah
38: It's late in the day & we are nearly at Jeddah-enlarge
to Jeddah
39: Life blood of the nation - apart from oil-enlarge

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