I shouldn't have STOPPED | S8, EP35
Hafar Al Batin, Saudi Arabia Season 8 - Eps. 35 Good morning Internet it is 8:30 in the morning and welcome back to the channel It's time to find a breakfast and fill up this 6 L extra water bag, because today I'm heading to the desert Okay, I am now in Hafar Al Batin I don't know why it has a different name here but I'm pretty sure I am here right now So in the last episode, I went like this And today I am continuing right through this stretch of desert And I'm going to stay somewhere in this area in a small town So it's quite a long distance for today Um, over 400 kilometers The streets are empty Ah, of course it's Friday today so It is a weekend here Good morning Okay Goodbye I just uh.. stopped on the side of the road To put on my uh.. extra jacket 'Cause it's a little bit chilly And immediately some.. some guy is stopping, are you okay? Do you have any problem? I was like, no no no no problem Hello guys Hello Yee hoo Yes! Finally! No more asphalt If it gets uh.. very sandy then I'll low my tire pressure a bit
But uh Now so far it's just the gravelly Actually, gravel track is right on the left here but that's super corrugated So let's head into the desert There's supposed to be kind of an oasis Not too far from here And then I think I'll be riding next to a dune field By the looks of it See Now I think Yeah, from here I am not entirely sure Uh, where to go 'Cause I found a track Kind of on the other side of this but I don't know if this is wet or dry Maybe I can just go straight here And then catch the track on that side See there's the dune field This way Trying to find this track Um It's very near Yeah, I think this way A little closer to the dunes Of course, I don't know how quickly these dunes are moving And maybe they've already moved over the track that I'm trying to find I don't know Oh no I think here I see something Or not? Here this one. Just gonna follow the red line That should be this track I think See how rocky it is here That's why it's not yet the time to lower any tire pressure 'Cause then I can just pinch my tube He he hoo Let's double check, I'm not losing my extra water bag Did I already lose it? No. See but it's hanging I need to attach this a bit better And the problem with this bag is it only has like.. One handle there So you can't really attach it On different spots Oh I stopped right in front of a sandy patch It's never a good idea I didn't notice! That If I would have just Come over this way when I still had the speed Oh, that's really silly Oh well It's probably the first time of many Okay Okay Crazy how.. Out of breath I still get so quickly After that collapsed lung It takes so long to recover from that It's ridiculous And then of course, my microphone in my helmet is like right in front of my mouth So my apologies if you can hear me huffing and puffing Which one, which one? Through the middle Every now and then I have to look at my phone Am I still going in the right direction It's so easy to just get totally consumed by the terrain To forget that I also need to navigate Because there are different tracks going into different directions Soft sand Now somewhere The track should veer to the right Oh it is so soft here It's very, very soft See that, I had to slow down to see If this was the..
Right track and then immediately you get stuck I think it's Have to be a bit more This way Ah, I see the track there, yeah There it is A little fox Oh, I hope you can see it on the GoPro 'Cause it's on the wide angle Wooh! My first animal. Hee hee That's so cool It's very soft Okay, I'm out of water In my.. Camel bak so I'm just going to fill up from my extra water bag Okay, let's go! It's now 2 o'clock Too much to the left Hello This is not right This way Somewhere Should be a track This way I think No idea Just tracks everywhere right This way This way Ha! I made it to tar Here's a tar road Let me see where am I? Yeah, this way I am back in civilization Can't read any of those signs but I have to take a left here What is he doing? That's cool I have 16 kms to go so It's not far anymore I should arrive at about 4:30 You can see the sun is already On its way down I made it to Shaqra And the place that I'm staying is like a.. family guest house Am I allowed in? Somewhere here Look what a nice place this is And then here is my room This is my room, isn't this super cute I have like a little sitting area here on the rug And then this is my bed So I am now walking in the old town of Shaqra This old part of town was completely built out of clay It is amazing and so they have been renovating parts of the city And I've been told that when the doors are open You're allowed to just go and check them out I don't think anybody lives in those Ones, like this one See it's all just.. Mud and hay together Let's check out upstairs Here you have a pretty good view of like some parts have collapsed But a lot is still standing as well See, all the rooftops are kind of connected, look You can see it really well from here And then this is connected to those houses there Now unsurprisingly, I'm getting a little bit lost in here Now I really don't know where I came from Ah, yes, yes Here I have been before These doors are.. all closed I'm hoping for another open door so I can Explore inside a house, but most of them are closed This is beautiful Look at the decorations And then here you have the second floor on top This smells like a fireplace Maybe they use it as a oven or a kitchen or something Ah, and this goes.. leads to another courtyard I think
Wow Amazing right? All made of clay, it's incredible It is absolutely deserted as well I am the only person wandering around here I think it's okay To walk here So I have found another entrance to the old city So I'm gonna now go in via this side What an amazing place I had no idea that this was what I was going to find like so incredible and I'm just thinking that nobody lives I think in this old part But imagine like, back in the day that it would be hustling and bustling here And people selling things and market stalls and everything And now it's just Let's check this out Wow This looks like an old well Oh yeah, definitely was Oef, you can't see but Oh, don't fall in that, that's very, very deep So now, let's go from the old town to kind of the new town to the souq The market So that was a really nice walk through this town And um, yeah what a.. what a good first full day in Saudi right? I really had a blast. Um, first riding in the desert And I mean, the desert scenery is going to get a lot more spectacular than what I did today I just wanted to ride in the dirt Um, but I really loved it and I got a good first kind of feel of Frankie in some sand And I'm really happy with the tires Uh, I didn't even lower the tire pressure at all And even then I felt like they were very grippy So I'm happy with my choice there And yeah, I can't wait to ride more desert But that was it for today I really hope you like this video, if you did please give me a big thumbs up Subscribe down below and then I'll see you in the next video
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