I was vary excited when my company informed me I was heading for Saudi to rig up our companies equipment. I have never seen a real dessert up to this point and was not disappointed in my short time I was there. I transited from London to Bahrain a small independent island just off the Saudi east coast by plane and then was driven to my hotel in Saudi at night by car. I got about 4 hours sleep at the hotel before I was dragged out to a land rover at 5am to head off to the oil rig site. It was only then that I got to see Saudi without the blackness of night and was amazed to see the white sandy dessert stretched into the distance with a small scatter of thorny looking shrubs and sand hills.
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