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Rejal Al-Teeb: Another Festival Celebrating The Rich Heritage of the Kingdom
The Rejal Al-Teeb is yet another festival celebrating parts of the Kingdom’s culture in the village of Rijal Almaa, the festival that will run for 20 days will explore the southern region’s heritage.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture as part of Al-Soudah Season, in the aim of turning it into a global tourist destination, the festival will launch on August 12 till the 31st.
Visitors will get to enjoy a tour around the village’s old mud and stone building, along with discovering the village’s rich history through a number of activities that include “the Heritage Market,” folklore and live shows, traditional food and arts and poetry evenings.
The village also has a beautiful flower garden, lots of perfume shops and Basil cafe. The flowers are used in making the village’s famous flower necklaces, and visitors will get to make their very own with the help of Asiri women.
Flowers necklaces are a cultural symbol that carries a social connotation for the Asiri people.
One of the main events of the festival is the heritage market that involves a lot of activities that help reflect the culture of Asir, and offers tourists the opportunity of enjoying the richness of its civilization and beauty.
The festival will also include poetry evenings and local, national and international folklore performances, and offers craft workshops that display traditional skills.
Thirty buses will be available to drive tourists from Al-Soudah Park to Rijal Almaa village. Also, the festival will recruit staff from local clubs and universities and will give them the required training to get them ready to welcome tourists from around the world.
In five days, an international motor show, will take place in Jeddah. The Jeddah superdome, 6th December and until 10th of December, will be one of the biggest international motor shows. The exhibition is sponsored by the ministry of transport and logistics and organized by the Salah company. The Jeddah Superdome, has set a world Record for being the largest freestanding dome in the world, in contrast to the Tokyo Dome which formerly held the title, with 206 meters. Located on the Madinah Road, West of King Abdallah sport City, the Jeddah Superdome has an internal area of 24,000 square meters, and a height of 46 meters, with a diameter of 210 meters, a parking space that accommodates 5200 viceless. The exhibition includes many experiences such as drifting, with professional drivers, on dedicated racks, go karting, off road experience with SUVs with professional drivers in a dedicated circuit, and an opportunity to drive the car of your dreams. In addition to restaurants, cafes that suit all of your tastes. The exhibition includes many important car agencies and exclusive launches of many vintage and antique cars presented for the first time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in addition to an auction of rare classic cars, with more than 35 luxury and rare cars on display. The auction was held by the Silverstone auctioneers, the biggest UK classic car auction house. The event is the biggest in its name, and the car industry, featuring the oldest cars, but unfortunately nothing was sold.
Beaches of the Kingdom are about to get cleaner with the ‘Let’s Make Them Cleaner’ initiative, which was launched on Friday by the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
Professional divers are taking part of the campaign as volunteers who are ready to clean the beaches and seabeds of Saudi Arabia, in order to save the marine environment from pollution.
The initiative is one of the events launched for Saudi and International Volunteer Day, which is celebrated every year on the 5th of December.
Entitles ‘Ataa Watan,’ the event covers several programs and activities across Saudi Arabia, they were held in partnership with government bodies and NGOs.
So far, the ministry launched five initiatives throughout this year, as part of the Voluntary Work Platform it launched on March 31, 2020.
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