my Future Plans

Back in 2005, when going from Wadi Rum to Aqaba in Jordan, as well as the following year, while trekking across the Djebel Haraz in Yemen, I wondered about the center piece of the Arabian Peninsula. It was then that I started thinking about Madain Saleh, Qasr Marid. Or at least I thought it was that. I did a bit of research and found out that the visa was not an easy affair with no acquaintance there and that the few tour operators (bleah!) arranging tours there provided unnaturally comfortable packages; it slowly died. Some years later, when in Iraq, I realized it was not the UNESCO listed site that had attracted me to the kingdom in the first place, but rather that curiosity about the people living there and about feeling, even if from an air conditioned vehicle, the old caravanning route. So, definitely among my most expensive per diem trips, I shall go there once tourist visas are back or, alternatively, once I find a business visa sponsor. Patience allowed in, as there should always be, it is going to happen.