Travelogues Makkah Region

What does a service truck like our 'Dakar hotel' with built-in shower, toilet, kitchen, and sleeping places need a lot of? Right! Especially diesel and water. Diesel? No problem...

Wonderful coast, only staying and swimming not allowed!! The entire border of KSA is closely monitored by the Border Control. Most of the time, permission to stay is granted,...

So now off to the bivouac in King Abdullah's Sport City, where the crew had already brought the cars from the port. Everything is being prepared, triple checked and inspected. ...

Now the final tests of the racing vehicles, then we can finally get started. About 40m outside of the bivouac there is a good test track with almost tracks, sand, and also some...

Old town of Jeddah, often still inhabited. But not by Saudis! A liter of diesel costs 19 cents here, but 10 gigabytes of internet costs 40€! Clothing store, modern or...

Train to Frankfurt, 30 minutes later - but no problem, then a smooth flight with Saudi-Air to Jeddah, I think the 2nd largest city in Saudi on the Red Sea - about 2 million...

After several years in South America, Russia and also Morocco - my rally story is now writing a new chapter: Now Saudi Arabia, the completely unknown country for me. 7 times as...