Of course we do here besides the natural recreational activities such as road-car-raft-riding or desert plowing and conventional tourist activities. Last weekend, this was about the Kingdom Tower to it. The bottle opener also called new landmark of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia or throughout the top floor of the sky bridge is located. Why is the tower and bottle opener is called, one may very well agree to the following image.

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It was the first conscious trip within the city with the Canon SLR. Basically, it is probably so that the Saudis do not like to be photographed on the street so we'd rather not photographed. In addition, for example, pictures of mosques a bad idea.
On the way up to the fund for the elevator to the Skybridge, I was wrong but never considered let alone addressed. Rather, I came to meet a number of Saudis who had equally great camera there. Reassuring.

Very funny, I'll find the "Ride of your life" on the map. I must confess that I have a trip to the 99th Floor of a skyscraper can not do every day, but I hope so, that wait in my life even more impressive things to me

At the checkout I noticed it the first "No Photos" sign. However, I said the cashier at the camera in the obvious. Similarly, this was done at the next security checkpoint. This was not really. The scanner beeped every time the went through, but the guard took nothing more. We waited for the first act. This would take us in 50 seconds on the stop in the 77th Stock take, where it with a second lift in 40 seconds on in the 99th Stock goes to the Skybridge.

When the elevator then there was, it was first "ladies first". And indeed, the women were separated from the men in the elevator. However, not in separate departments. No, but the women stood together in the back of the elevator and the men in front. Interesting implementation of gender segregation in any case

Once in the mezzanine, we marched on to the next lift, but have been asked to wait, so that women can again first in the elevator. It was also important that we wait and the right in front of the lift, which we have been explicitly asked. I fully understand the meaning behind it, however.

Once at the top, I found a "No Photos" sign before and figured with the fact that I was here now would remove the apparatus. Not applicable. Rather, I met a young security guard and asked me to promise not to take pictures, just to see over his shoulder as the first images of Saudis and the outlook did.

The skybridge is built bent. At the highest point there is a photo station, with the wish to commit the operator, put more money. This will probably be the reason why we should even take any pictures. For if it remains at a then. Where you looked, the other visitors had cameras in hand and shot pictures to remember. At the time, then I saw no reason to stop me.

Really mean it was the young guard, as long as a few young Saudis persuaded him until they took him between then and shot a photo with him. You could see him formally that he did not fit to be on a photo that he should avoid even actually.
Meanwhile, many women raised his brief moments for disguising her face to have photographs of it, only to immediately pull back the veil over the face too quickly.

Our plan was to be the latest at 18:00 clock on the sky bridge, make both pictures in daylight, but also photos of Riyadh at night to. Unfortunately the weather was more than modest, so that the above panorama was used only after histogram processing.

As you can see beautiful, you will find on the roofs of the city often either satellite dishes or the ventilation units for air conditioning. Both depend of course on the walls of many buildings.

What was surprising was the dawn longer than expected, so we were in total, two hours on the Skybridge. So we could then see also that the young security guard came to an authoritative-looking Saudi side to the photo ban effectively implemented. Used it and it was certainly nothing more diligently photographed as soon as both were out of sight

Let's see, that we visit the Skybridge in really good weather to visit again. I would like to have something there but better-looking photos