Al-Ula Historical Tour

About this tour

Al-Ula is a place of extraordinary human and natural heritage.

We invite you to come journey through a living museum of preserved tombs, sandstone outcrops, historic dwellings and monuments, both natural and human-made, that hold 200,000 years of largely unexplored human history. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been a crossroads of ancient civilizations — a place of deep history, but one that is constantly evolving. Al-Ula is an extraordinary example of this and you can soon help write the next pages of its history

Day 1:

• Arrival

Day 2

• Old Town of AlUla

Tour to explore history. It dates back to the 14th century AD, it is 650 years old, They are the ruins of about 800 homes spread around a tall castle facing farms that were irrigated by springs that dried up years ago (2 hours)

• Jabal AlFil (Elephant Rock)

Tour to see the astonishing Elephant Mountain from the heart of the golden desert sands, one of the many geological wonders of Al Ula. In contrast to the ornate hand-carved facades of the Nabataean cemeteries in the neighboring city of Al-Hajar, the trunk and body of this red sand mountain were made by the forces of nature over millions of years from the factors of erosion and erosion by wind and water. The natural beauty of the structure is enhanced by the charm of its rich surroundings by a smooth sandy sea studded with amazing huge rocky outcrops. Many of them take on interesting shapes. (3 hours)

Day 3:

• AlUla Museum | متحف العُلا

Explore the history and civilization in Al-Ula through this museum, as it contains a number of maps that illustrate the most important archaeological sites in the region. In addition to a number of drawings that represent the historical periods that the region went through, arranged in chronological order, And a number of exhibits represented by carved stone tools and stone utensils, The museum relies on displaying its collections on a number of wings such as the prehistoric wing, And the pre-Islamic period pavilion, And the Islamic period wing and the Kingdom Unification Suite, The museum includes a library that contains books specialized in history and archeology. (2 hours)

• Hegra

Tour of the Nabataeans’ stone “masterpiece”. We explore the ornate, hand-carved facades of the Nabataean cemeteries in the city of Hegra, which played a pivotal role in the prosperity of the Nabataean Empire, which remains shrouded in mystery. (2 hours)

• Dadan & Jabal Ikmah

Thousands of pre-Arabic inscriptions across numerous sites make Al Ula an important location in studying the Arabic language. A mountain north of the Al Ula Valley, A lAqra’a, features more than 450 early Arabic inscriptions. Naqsh Zuhayr, to the east, features one of the oldest inscriptions of the Islamic era which dates back to 24AH (644 CE). There is no such site that is more significant, than Jabal Ikmah, home to the highest concentration of, and most varied inscriptions, in Al Ula. (2 hours)

Day 4:

• Departure