Tourism in Saudi Arabia

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arab country with a monarchy located in the Arabian Peninsula and account for three-fifths of the area, bordered to the north of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and the Middle UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and the Persian Gulf, on the south by the Sultanate of Oman and Yemen. On the west by the Red Sea.

 
Characterized by the Arabian Peninsula's strategic location between three continents and the largest is located in the northern half of the planet is home to many civilizations, the cradle of the heavenly messages. Has flourished within the borders of the Kingdom of civilizations said some of the Qur'an such as the debtor, as well as civilization Thamud in Ela and still have their effects exist even today in the area known as Madain Salih, Najran, we find the groove in which the Qur'an spoke about the owners of the groove

In this island, which was an important commercial corridor and a way for the convoys and the spread of Islam in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula and later spread to other parts of the world until he reached Africa, Asia, and part of Europe over the centuries the prosperity of the Islamic Caliphate.

 
And passed hundreds of years in which countries have emerged, and still states, and the Muslims, in turn, cultural history, which it crossed the modern human civilization from the dark ages, and the spread of Islam in various parts of the world. Although the driving time away from the city of Medina and the Arabian Peninsula in general, the effects may have had a recent role as happened after the events of that land is sacred has been a popular destination for pilgrims and visitors.

 
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the bulk of the peninsula and the highlights of the surface include the following

· Sarawat mountain range in the west, and extends along the country from north to south, and is called the northern part of the Hijaz and the southern part of Assir, and exceed the height at its highest point about 3680 m above sea level.

 
· Narrow coastal plain called Tihama, separating the mountains Sarawat and the Red Sea.
· Plateau, we find a large rocky hill situated to the east of the mountains of the Hijaz and height ranges between 320 m and 1200 m, interspersed with sandy Nafud and narrow valleys also penetrate from the north to the south, and there is a mountain in the north Aja and Salma.

 · A broad coastal plain in the east, dominated by drought, with the exception of two major AhtinAhsa and Qatif, and this area was called in the past Region Bahrain.
· Sea sand is inhabited mainly the Empty Quarter in the south of the country, and the great Nafudin the north, and up between them a narrow strip of sand called Nafud Dahna desert.
· Tracking of the Kingdom of 1300 Island 1150 Island in the Red Sea and 150 islands in thePersian Gulf, the most important of the Knights Islands near Jizan and Qatif, near the island ofTarot
· Mountains (Nasharti) in Tabuk

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the south-west of the continent of Asia extended over an area of ​​approximately 2,270,000 km ², which is equivalent to about four-fifths of the Arabian Peninsula, an area of ​​approx. And bounded on the west of the Red Sea on the north by Jordan and Iraq, and Kuwait, on the east and the Persian Gulf state of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, on the south by the Republic of Yemen. The length of the borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from all sides, including 6.760 km 4.430 km land border and 2330 km of coastal boundaries.

And mostly dry on the territory of the country free from rivers or waterways permanent. Although the dry valleys in most parts full of water after rain storms, but the actual value of the water is weak, either due to evaporation or due to leakage into the ground.
The Saudi territory geographically museum includes many forms of terrain from the mountains and plateaus and volcanic cones are free and deep valleys and coastal plains and low and veins of sand and coral islands. It consists of those physical manifestations of the most well-known rocks. And surface features can be divided in the country into four geographic regions are the major natural
· The mountains of the Hijaz and Asir
· Najd Plateau.
· Sandy deserts
· The eastern coastal plain.

The mountains of the Hijaz and Asir
It consists of ancient igneous rocks or metamorphic and are covered in some parts Aharat volcanic. And extends along the Red Sea coastal plain and a length of 1.700 kilometers from the Gulf of Aqaba and the border with Jordan in the north to the border with Yemen to the south. They descend sharply to the west and gradually towards the east, and narrow in the north, but they accommodate to the south offer ranges between 40 and 240 km. Featuring mountain chains said they are in parallel and bearing the names of several, where it is known the northern part of Hijaz mountains, as they book between the coastal plain and in the Arabian Peninsula

 , Is called the southern part of Asir mountains, to overcome hardship, severity, and nakedness, and know their ranges as high mountains or Sarawat Sarat Asir, where the rise in the country's highest peak on Mount Sawdah near the city of Abha to 3678 m above sea level. And down from the mountains of Asir and Hijaz valleys hundreds of the most famous valleys of Najran and Jizan, Bisha and Fatima, agate, Rumah. Including what is paid into the sea waters and the waters of which flow inward. These basins are characterized by valleys as key centers for agricultural activity because the place where the floods that carry large amounts of silt.

 
Sand covering large areas of the country is due to inhibition of sculpture and erosion and sedimentation by fragmenting soft rock and formed lowlands in the form of sediment basins filled with sand. One of the main sandy deserts, the following

· Khali basin wide low one of the largest sand desert on earth as it related to an area of ​​640 thousand km ² extending from the highlands of the Hijaz and Asir highlands in the west to Oman in the east, and north to the plateau, we find the border with Yemen to the south. In spite of the harshness of the natural environment in this region and the absence of human activity, but it is full of riches huge oil and natural gas and radioactive minerals, sand, glass and solar energy, which is no longer free as the name suggests this, as the infested centers and stations, the national oil company and roam the planes and cars veiled skies and land for mineral savings.

 
· Dahna desert to San desert extends from the Empty Quarter and the surrounding plateau, we find from the east heading towards the north with a length of 1.200 km and wider ranges between 25-80 km. It consists of the Dahna sand dunes parallel red rock located by commas

Areas are religious tourist center important as destinations for tourists from all over the world to perform religious rites, or to visit places of religious history, ancient, as is the case to go to Mecca «to perform the Hajj», or Jerusalem, «to see the land of Isra and Al Maraj, the Church of the Nativity », have become« Tourism »password for individuals and nations, it means when people enjoy the relaxation and freedom from the burdens of work and watch all the strange and breathtaking, as seen by some countries a source economically seeks to promote in various ways, from a peak of tourism revenues in the world $ 1.4 trillion (1,400 billion dollars) a year.

Despite the disagreement on the legitimacy of the name of religious tourism, but some elders went to say «The Tourism sense to move from one place to another to see what the effects of or for a walk and enjoy with its views, or aspects of order does not prevent religion in itself, but he wants if the purpose Mstdelan honest journey of Imam Shafi'i, known in the application of science and his call to travel, and considered himself to pilgrimage and religious tourism imposed worship ».

In Saudi Arabia is the religious tourism of the most important sources of income and one of the biggest pillars of the economy in view of what is characterized by the Kingdom of the privacy and uniqueness from the other countries of the world the existence of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque and the holy places frequented by millions of Muslims from all over the world to perform the Hajj and Umrah

 
The elements of religious tourism in Saudi Arabia are available remarkably is poised to be one of the pillars of the economy, and these ingredients that would attract tourists from all over the world because Saudi Arabia is rich in heritage and its implications that strike deep roots in human history, where Saudi Arabia is the center of religious tourism because of the orientation hearts Muslims before their eyes to see those places pure