Tayma

Tabuk Province · Saudi Arabia

Tayma, Saudi Arabia
Photo: Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to March
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One of the oldest inhabited oasis settlements in Arabia, once a stop on ancient trade routes and briefly home to a Babylonian king. Its ruins include a massive stone well and remnants of mudbrick fortifications.

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