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2003-12-10 Arabia

Is Saudi Arabia Ready to Receive Foreign Tourists?

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-10 14:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...other than that, how did you enjoy your stay?

Posted by BH 2003-12-10 2:36:30 PM|| 2003-12-10 2:36:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is Saudi Arabia Ready to Receive Foreign Tourists?

That depends - do they have enough hospitals and doctors handy?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-10 2:37:15 PM|| 2003-12-10 2:37:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Not bad - captured some of the flavor very well.

Left out religious visas, however, for the hajj shit.

"The truth is that no matter what we do, we are not ready to receive foreign tourists."
This is, without a doubt, the understatement of the new Millenium by the Saoodis. Wotta maroon.

But one should never underestimate the loonacy of people with 739 weeks of vacation time per year and several dozen holidays. Anyone up for cycling along the Iranian border?

Posted by ,com 2003-12-10 2:39:44 PM|| 2003-12-10 2:39:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We could send in a couple of divisions, er, groups of advisors to help them out.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-10 2:44:57 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-12-10 2:44:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What about studying aeolian formations in the empty quarter for pleasure?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-10 2:48:04 PM|| 2003-12-10 2:48:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 AP - there's a 4-Wheeler club that does the Empty Quarter run pretty regularly. They come back with interesting stuff, sometimes: pottery and other artifacts. As for your geomorphological query, dat be dere, too, awright!

Posted by ,com 2003-12-10 3:00:35 PM|| 2003-12-10 3:00:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 A stellar analysis. He forgot to mention that tourists have most annoying cravings: they want to visit places of INTEREST and not getting their heads chopped off for trying to enter Mecca as infidels.

Oh but glad we talked about it!

.com, you are right though. Some morons would go anyway, just for the heck of it.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-12-10 3:06:01 PM|| 2003-12-10 3:06:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 TGA - in this nice quiet thread I'd like to heartily welcome you back! (Yes, I know it's chicken!) I've missed your POV! I'm about to go into sporadic access mode and didn't want to miss the opportunity! Keep pluggin' & sluggin', bro!

Posted by ,com 2003-12-10 3:18:08 PM|| 2003-12-10 3:18:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sure thing ,com... still no speed limit on the autobahn!

Posted by True German Ally 2003-12-10 3:36:29 PM|| 2003-12-10 3:36:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Fropm the picture he gives it looks like an ideal place for vacation for a coalition soldiers using their vactions to practice their marksmanship with a tank gun.

Posted by JFM 2003-12-10 4:42:54 PM|| 2003-12-10 4:42:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Reminds me of a joke here:

What happens if you send Schroeder to Saudi Arabia?
Nothing for 5 years, then the place runs out of sand!

Posted by True German Ally 2003-12-10 5:17:49 PM|| 2003-12-10 5:17:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 It's no accident that so many Saudi royals vacation elsewhere.

Posted by Tom 2003-12-10 7:34:41 PM|| 2003-12-10 7:34:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Lousy place for a vacation, but they may have opportunities as a retirement destination. 18 holes and a cart at the (men only) Idi Amin Sand Links anyone?

Posted by john 2003-12-10 8:47:22 PM|| 2003-12-10 8:47:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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