... and noone who knows Martin is surprised. It was my second weekend in Saudi Arabia (well weekend ... Thursday and Friday, but these are free here and Saturday and Sunday are workdays) so it was more than logical to go and explore local geocaches.
To those who do not know about geocaching I recommend to have a look at www.geocaching.com to understand what I'm talking about.
(my explanation - naturally I'm kidding - is that it was started by someone with too much advertisement junk so he started to put it into the boxes around the world :) ... on the other hand we would not come to several lovely and interesting places we got thanks to geocaching)
So on Saturday (oh no, on Thursday :)) we started with the cache Jeddah to Madinah. It is approx. 50 km from KAUST, not far from the road connecting Makkah and Medinah. The colorful blur (which is what you see from the car going under the speed limit 120 km/h) though more or less umber (or the color of the sand) was quite interesting - I still can't tire myself of the 2-languages traffic signs and the varied towers of minarets. We've met also a few Bedouins and some herds of camels (out of the main road).
On Friday we went to the South to Jeddah region to look for the cache No stone unturned. This time we've seen a part of the town (from the road, we'll explore it another day), more minarets, car cemetery (a huge space full of wreckage), a few sort of holiday parks (it looks like funfair next to the road with adjacent hostel) and naturally a loads of further traffic signs. After turning most of the stones on the spot (though the right one was unturned among the first few) Martin found the cache and as our predecessor (November 2008) we laughed out loud when we realized :) (sorry for not being more specific, I don't want to spoil the fun for others :))
Photos from both our trips should soon be on
Martin's or mine tomato (= rajče in Czech).
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