Mada’in Saleh

Standing in a landscape steeped in history and legend. The tombs of Mada’in Saleh are the only tangible remains of a people who literary vanished as a culture into the mists of time. Madain Saleh, known also as Hegra, it was the southern capital of Nabatean Kingdom, while Petra was its northern capital.

Main Attractions

Al Hijr:
Madain Saleh was an important trading center on the caravan route linking southern Arabia to the Mediterranean basin and Mesopotamia. It’s been prosperous city and people displayed their wealth with spectacular tombs carved in the surrounding mountain.

The Hijaz Railway:
It is a journey with full of excitement and a trail of romantic History, from the ancient frankincense and myrrh traders. To huge caravans of Hajj pilgrims, to remnants of ottoman empire soldiers steaming south to Madinah, to T.E. Lawrence and his like with their wild armies of Bedouin fighting their way North.