The Asir Mountains, which rise sharply along Saudi Arabia's southwestern border with Yemen, offer a landscape so unlike popular depictions of Arabia that tourists frequently struggle to reconcile these …

The Rub' al Khali—the "Empty Quarter"—is the world's largest continuous sand desert and one of the most hostile locations. This vast wilderness of towering dunes, salt flats, and desolate gravel plains has …

Saudi Arabia's western coastline along the Red Sea stretches for about 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles), from the Gulf of Aqaba in the north to the Yemeni border in the south, and includes one of the world's most …