Saudi Arabia - Jeddah (Jiddah) - Travel - Jim Rogers World Adventure

Leading economic expert Jim Rogers traveled to 150 countries over 150,000 miles in three years - follow his adventures here on FentonReport.

In this video Jim and Paige visit Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

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Jeddah (also spelled Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda) is a Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The population of the city currently stands at over 3.4 million. It is considered the commercial capital of Saudi Arabia.

Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, which able-bodied Muslims are required to visit at least once in their lifetime.

Residents of Jeddah are called Jeddans. Jeddah has 24 sister cities, which are selected based on economic, cultural and political criteria. http://www.fentonreport.com/2009/03/17/people/saudi-arabia-archaeological-rui...

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[CreepyLizard]

Jeddah's a very advanced city where many areas where women are in fact not required to fully cover their face as well as some beaches where they can dress in anyway they want. I don't think the old parts of Jeddah plays a good representation of the whole city itself. I think you should have took your camera to the rest of the city, not the oldest settlement you could find

[arojy1]

@bindasUA we're in kingdom even the men can't vote for the king hahahahaha

that's so crazy to say " why the not allowed to vote ..!

[ZimmermanHound]

My dad is part-owner of a small engineering firm with about 50 engineers. They work all around the world. His firm as a a small office in UAE. I was down there and then we enter Saudi Arabia. I understand why people love the Arabian Desert. It is a very fascinated culture. The people is a bit fucked up but if you live in a compound it is all cool. II would really like to try in Saudi Arabia. UAE is not so exotic and fascinating as Saudi Arabia.

[BrownBabyGirl215]

Furthermore, if your mind is closed and you do not respect anything that is different from yourself, you fail to see the beauty in anything other than yourself.

I suggest you stop running to Saudi looking for "opportunities" and "financial gain" tax free if you hate it there so much. It just doesn't make sense. Every where you go in the Earth is not going to cater to "you" and "your lifestyle". Don't you get that?

[BrownBabyGirl215]

I do not understand why "some" Americans go to Saudi and then complain about the culture. If what drove you to go to Saudi was "money" than I suppose you were willing to subject yourself to "Saudi culture" long enough to receive "Saudi money".

The other thing I don't understand is why Americans (not all) fail to understand diversity. Americans believe they hold "The Standard" to everything and expect all other societies to live accordingly otherwise they are "this and that". Grow up!!!

[mfl002]

@CreepyLizard Jim Rogers filmed this between January 1, 1999 and January 5, 2002.

These new areas you speak of may have existed then but at the same time perhaps they didn't exist or were not so vibrant at the time?

[AntiFob81]

i stayed the entire past year in Jeddah and i gotta say wat a dump! Im frm America and ive lived there 13 and 3 years in England and 1 in Jeddah can u imagine last December it rained just a bit and the entire city was flooded and Saudi society is literally fucked up Men cannot enter malls without women smoking is legal everywhere, women cannot drive or must wear this black dress that covers them frm head to toe and lastly racism is everywhere so in the end i do NOT recommend anyone to go there!

[hqhosam1671]

@arojy1 لا فرق بين عربي ولا اعجمي الا بالتقوى

وانت تفرق بين عرب

[arojy1]

@abuammrah هذولي طرووش بحرر يعني من لبنان وسوريا واليمن لا تشششيل همهم مذهبم يبيح الكشف .. اهم شيء عارفين انهم مو سعوديين اصصصل وهذه الي يريح يعني مسستحيل وحدة سعودية من القبايل وتطلع فاتشششششة إلا إذا كانت مهجنة من اصول شاميه ههههههههههههه

ولا قصصصد إهانة احد من كلامي

[arojy1]

@alexhong100 yup yup ..