Saudi Arabia: Women's Expedition
On this women-only adventure around Saudia Arabia’s dramatic landscapes and UNESCO World Heritage sites, you’ll spend 12 days learning about the country’s deep history, sampling the local cuisine and getting to know the local women. With a desire to tell their own story, they will introduce you to the world of the diverse and severely underrepresented women of Saudi Arabia. Tour a citrus farm with sisters who transformed their father’s vision into a multigenerational business, take a cooking class and pottery workshop, get to know the Holy City of Madinah with a local female guide, cruise and snorkel the Red Sea and meet Saudi Arabia’s first-ever female guide in Jeddah.
Activities
- Riyadh – Traditional Saudi Dinner
- Riyadh – Complimentary Airport arrival transfer
- Riyadh – Pottery workshop visit with female artist
- Riyadh - Traditional Home cooked meal with female hosts
- Diriyah – UNESCO Site
- Riyadh - Souq Al-Zal Market visit
- Ushaiger - Heritage Village
- Buraydah - Cooking class with female chef
- Buraydah - Date market
- Unaizah – Al Musoawkaf Traditional market
- Hail - Female only Salon visit
- Alula - Historical Old town and Al Jadidah Area
- Alula – Elephant Rock (Jabal AlFil)
- Alula – Abeya shop
- Alula - Citrus Farm Tour & Lunch
- Alula - Madain Saleh (Hegra) Tour with local guide
- Dissah Valley - 4x4 Excursion and bedouin style picnic
- Madinah - City Tour & Dar Al Madinah Museum with local female guide
- Madinah - Sunset Saudi Picnic with female local guide
- Madinah - Market visit & lunch
- Madinah - Hijaz Railway Terminus Station
- Al Balad - UNESCO Heritage walking tour with female guide
- Jeddah - Ladies only beach
- Jeddah - Red Sea Boat & Snorkelling trip
- Tour a local, family-owned citrus farm with the sisters who run it, explore Wadi Disah (Valley of Palm Trees) and see Alula’s remarkable rock formations with giant tombs from the Nabatean era.
- Visit Madinah – the second holiest site in Islam, after Mecca – with a local female guide. Enjoy a Saudi-style picnic of local bread and peppermint tea with views over the Holy City.
- Take a bullet train to Jeddah’s Al Balad – a UNESCO World Heritage site – and meet with Saudi’s first female guide Abir. Wander the narrow streets, meet friendly vendors and sample local delicacies.
- Cruise the Red Sea on a boat on your final day – snorkel, swim and end it all on a private women-only beach for sunset.
- This trip is designed to support local women and entrepreneurs, so you’ll join a cooking class with a local chef, meet with a pottery artist, get pampered at a women-owned salon, join a host family for a home-cooked meal and stay in a female-owned boutique hotel.
- Women’s Trips
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We've been taking travellers around the globe and connecting people from all walks of life since 1989.
That's over 30 years of adventures, visiting new places and old friends, and countless, unforgettable moments. More than 30 years of changing the way people see the world on small group trips with like-minded explorers and a local leader to show you around.
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About Intrepid Travel
We've been taking travellers around the globe and connecting people from all walks of life since 1989.
That's over 30 years of adventures, visiting new places and old friends, and countless, unforgettable moments. More than 30 years of changing the way people see the world on small group trips with like-minded explorers and a local leader to show you around.
But to us, it's about more than just seeing the world, it's about experiencing it. It's about feeling its pulse and the shared rhythms of Intrepid people all over the world. To be Intrepid is far more than a lust for travel, we're an antidote to loneliness. We connect people to the heartbeat of adventure and the soul of the planet.
