WILD Arabia - DEEP in the Desert | FIRST Glimpse into Saudi’s Eco-Tourism
Could you ever imagine that your first experience living with nature, surrounded by animals roaming the lands around you, would be in Saudi Arabia? A place where ostrich and Arabian Oryx roam among the Gazelles join us in this week's special episode as we take you on an adventure in northeast Saudi Arabia to the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Royal Nature Reserve, for a first-hand glimpse at some of Saudi's wildlife and make a visit to the important and historical town of Lena. welcome everyone to "Epic Everyday Adventures" and this week we're in one of our favorite places, we are in the region of Ha'il, and we're going to be taking you somewhere really awesome, something a little different than we normally do, we're going to be going to the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Royal Reserve it's going to be fun, the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Royal Reserve has more than 60 species of animals and over 120 different species of plants so it's going to be fun and exciting, we're going to be happy to show you guys that and stay tuned, because we got some different sleeping arrangements than you've ever seen us in before out in the middle of the desert, and we're excited to show you that, so stay tuned how are you doing? I'm fine. What about you? good, good okay we're uh just here in front of the building, we're gonna get together, and we've got some other people joining, we're gonna do a little group, and then uh we'll head out to the camp from here, so just uh waiting for a few people, as you can see there's a little area where you can uh take a little rest, while you're waiting to head to the camp so pretty nice, they got tea, and coffee and some dates in there, nice little setup so the camp is pretty far out here, it's pretty remote, we've been driving for about 45 minutes on this dirt road trail, averaging about 60, 50 kilometers an hour, so I think we're gonna, uh I think we're gonna make it there soon, here we go okay take a look there, he's got to unlock the gate, this whole area here where the eco-lodge is, looks like it's gated, so waiting for him to open it up, here we go okay we're here inside the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Royal Nature Reserve and we're at the camp which you can see right there behind me, got some cool uh eco-buildings set up for us, so check that out, stay tuned, here we go all right we arrived at our cabin, this will be our home for the next uh three days and two nights, there it is, check it out all right, pretty nice in here, I like it, it's a hard uh thick canvas tent, nice uh structure around it, really nice in here, I like this, I definitely like, this is a good way to go camping right here glamping, yeah this is uh definitely glamping um all right, you can see, how you like this place Noah? Good. Noah approved, so that means it's awesome glamping, he calls it glamping, nice, outside the uh tent here you can see you got some windows this is some pretty, pretty heavy-duty material here, but uh two windows on each side, right there and then here's, here's behind me right here, beautiful, nice you can see right here all these uh glamping style eco-tents all set up with Noah in the background, and then over here this is the bathroom regular bathroom stall if you take a look right here, this is the tent for hanging out, drinking some coffee, having some Chai, we'll hit that place up next all right we just left the tent with the coffee, now we're gonna check this tent out right here looks pretty awesome, come on, here we go nice, oh yeah, all right inside this other gathering area, real nice setup lots of seats, lots of room for people, give you an idea how tall the ceiling is here I am and you can see there's mommy, just investigating, checking out the place find anything good over there? got some dates there there you go, how do you like this place mommy? I like it, I like the decoration, it's very comfortable. Nice, very nice
there's mommy just uh relaxing right there, Noah's inside running around enjoying himself, nice place here nice weather too, that's right and if you guys are wondering what mommy is relaxing looking at, looking at, the moon right there in front of us, there it is, nice, okay what are you getting now Noah? a date wow, yummy date, nice. You like dates? yeah, good. They're healthy right? yes and they're yummy I'm back from the nice hot shower, and now it's time to go to sleep so we're gonna see you guys in the morning, here we go all right well good morning everybody, just uh waking up out here, it's about seven o'clock and uh mommy and Noah are still in the tent sleeping, a lot of people uh here are still sleeping right now but i think they got breakfast cooking, gonna be a good day today, we're gonna do uh some uh exploring with some of the guides, so stay tuned, got lots of stuff in store for you, here we go all right, we're in the car, we're gonna go out and start exploring this uh reserve area while we got the opportunity, so here we go right out here, right along the fence line you can see there's another ostrich he's moving around out there, pretty cool there he is, hey oh there's another one out there I think, yeah, another one right next to him Noah look, look, look over there ostrich okay take a look out there, there they go, there they go, out here in the wild okay pretty cool seeing those ostrich let's uh head down the trail and do some more exploring, here we go don't know if you guys can see that, uh way out there uh Arabian Oryx, uh running wild out there I don't know if we can get close enough, he looks pretty skittish you look right out there, you can see the Arabian Oryx out there I don't know how close we can get to it before he takes off running, we'll see if we can get closer for you here we go, just trotting along, along this fence right in front of us, we're going to move along amazing seeing this uh out here in the wild like this, and uh we don't want to get too close, we don't want to scare him or uh anything like that, so it's about as close as we're gonna get just here in the gathering room, everybody's just hanging out as you can see behind me having a good time drinking some Chai and some coffee out of the wind, pretty windy out right now so everyone's just hanging out and relaxing so here in this Royal Nature Reserve is this area called the Taysiah Green Area, which is the area that we're in right now, as you can see, it's all green and it's actually the area that the camp is in which is uh directly in front of me over there, one of the things that really interested me in this reserve is last year they planted 20,000 trees and then this year in 2022 they're going to plant 200,000 trees, just in this reserve, one of the other cool things about this reserve is they actually use these specialized drones that carry seeds that spread all the different uh vegetation and things throughout the entire reserve, uh different times of the year, as they grow, pretty cool, here we go I hope you guys enjoyed seeing those uh gazelle and the ostrich, now we're heading to the road to go to a festival, it's gonna be fun, stay tuned okay we're here at the Darb Zubaydah Winter Festival, this is King Abdul-Aziz Palace so we're gonna walk around check it out, here we go this is called an Arabic, "Makshoosh" I like it you need a bracelet this is the first year of the Darb Zubaydah Winter Festival here so we're pretty honored to be here for the first time, checking it out you want this Noah? Cool sewing, still using the manual sewing machine thank you very much, and I just want to thank Abu Sood and Fahad here for taking care of us at the Reserve, so they did an excellent job, very professional and took care of all our needs so very, very pleased with their service, and take care of us, thank you see you next time, for sure, we hope to come back again soon, thank you all right, well the festival's over for us, but we hope you guys enjoyed this uh amazing Nature Reserve and the cool festival and all the awesome people that we met along the way, and make sure you check us out on Patreon appreciate your support, and make sure you hit that like, that subscribe, and that bell notification, stay tuned, we got a new video every Monday at 7 30 p.m., until next time see you later
2022-02-23 03:26
