Jeddah is one of the most famous cities of Saudi Arabia and holds major attractions for tourists all around the world. Filled with sites like the amazing Floating Mosque and the Silver Sands Beach, Jeddah contains beautiful destinations and places for anyone to relish. In addition, its huge malls are all comfortable
Jeddah is also the gateway to Mecca and Medina for the two million-plus Muslims who make the Hajj pilgrimage each year. Further up the coast there are beach resorts and scuba diving opportunities, although many of the offshore coral reefs have been destroyed in recent years.
This steamy, Red Sea trading port was the capital until 1982, when it moved to Riyadh. Jeddah today is a beguiling and culturally rich melting pot where every race of the Red Sea is represented.
It is a perennially warm, open-air city where Egyptians sit at café tables, puffing on shisha water pipes and playing backgammon beneath the street lights. Yemeni tailors squat cross-legged in clothing shops working late into the night while Somali, Eritrean and Djiboutian women lay out displays of spices in the street market.
in some parts of the country society is gradually opening up - here Saudi women jog through Jeddah's old Ballad quarter
In the winding, cobbled back streets of the old district, known as the Ballad, it's not unusual to hear the language of the Ethiopian highlands mingle with Arabic and Hindi.
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