CURIOSITIES OF SAUDI ARABIA

The country of Saudi Arabia, being on another continent and being ruled by another religion, has thousands of differences with our country, that is why we are going to count some of them here. The name of this monarchy is due to two things: Arabia for the Arabian peninsula and Saudi for the House of Saud, which is the family that rules the country, it is an absolutist family because they do not recognize the division of powers.

Despite the standard of living they have, the resources and the luxurious life in this country they continue to use camels as the main means of transportation in the desert due to their resistance to heat, their ease of transportation on the sandy surface and the time they can take. live without drinking water, in this country the camel race is very popular, which gathers thousands of fans, even more than soccer.

It is home to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam and the birthplace of the religion's most important prophet: Muhammad. They have in their honor the great mosque, the largest mosque in the world where millions of people come to pray. Millions of tourists visit this mosque every year to take photos and learn a little about Islamic culture. Its central courtyard contains the Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam, in the Kaaba is embedded the Black Stone that Muslims try to touch in the course of circumambulation during the pilgrimage (the Hach).