Dalaghan and Al Faraa make a useful pairing when you want time outdoors without building the day around a major summit or a long heritage tour. Choos…

Habala (الحبلة) is best understood from the edge of its landscape: a steep escarpment drops toward a narrow shelf where stone buildings occupy an imp…

Tabab (طبب), northwest of Abha, brings together substantial stone buildings and a cultivated valley. Its best-known heritage stop, the Abu Noghta cas…

The first impression of Rijal heritage village (قرية رُجال) is vertical: dark stone buildings climb the hillside, their small windows outlined in whi…

Rijal Almaa (رجال ألمع) names a governorate as well as the destination many travellers associate with its famous heritage village. The wider area lin…

Soudah (السودة) is where a journey out of Abha becomes a mountain visit: exposed rock, juniper woodland and steep western slopes change the scale of …

Abha is the capital of Aseer in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Give the city time of its own: its heritage districts, cultural spaces and viewpoints offe…