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today's video alrighty hello guys
how do you say good evening
i'm here in
saudi arabia and it is
so beautiful i just threw the drone up
in the air
and got some pretty awesome shots so
let's roll it
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so yes we're out here just exploring
it's just an insane landscape i don't
know it's it's just amazing it's
beautiful you just want to stay here all
day and take videos and pictures of it
we're going to be here for a few days in
alula so we had today we're going to be
here tomorrow and a little bit of the
next day and
cannot wait to show it to you guys hello
again guys we are out here in the desert
really in the middle of nowhere we drove
about 20 minutes out on the
sand out here there's our car
and uh we've all got our shema shemax
can you say that and uh we're gonna head
up to the top of this maybe at least i'm
gonna try to make it all the way up
there it's a bit hot but i think it
would make for some pretty sweet drone
shots so we're on our way up
what style are you going for nick with
the schmack
i like it it's pretty amazing they're
obviously developing tourism out here in
alula but there's a lot of streets well
not even streets like paths on the sand
like the one we came down you can see it
right there kind of
but just go into the desert and you can
basically just go and suddenly
you are just
really out there oh that probably is way
taller than it looks that mountain
behind us but i kind of want to try to
go up
this is insane
all of these mountains are bigger than
they
appear from down below
it's quite hot
let me show you the guys
they are
so they're down there
there's our car right at the edge there
somewhere
but it's not so far very steep
here we go guys the big reveal
wow
i wonder if this is safe
to go out here
holy
cow
oh my gosh
this part out here
it's like one big pillar
but it's covered in
little
fragments
i don't know if i want to go out there
because it just drops straight off on
both sides but i made it
look at this
oh my gosh
you know what time it is
it's drone time
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whew
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so
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so
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i just tried to catch my drone
coming out of the sky because there's no
really you know flat place to land here
and i
cut up both my fingers that thing is
not messing around ouch
oh well a lot of blood sweat and tears
going into this channel a lot a lot of
sweat
a bit of blood and no tears yet for the
most part
but i'm sure there will come a time
guys i tied my own uh little
turban thing here let me know how i did
i don't know i i didn't really follow
any style i kind of just
went with my gut
but it's covering my head and most of my
neck and i feel good about it so anyway
gotta get down to the car
all the way down there we've come quite
a ways
and uh it's a bit tricky to find the
right way
down because it's
just drops off in some places i'm gonna
wind around
make our way back to the car and keep
exploring and that's really
what i think alula is all about because
they've got all the you know a few
famous sites that are set up for tourism
and you have to be on guided tours and
stuff but
for me in my opinion
the best part is
just coming out here
finding a spot somewhere in some massive
valley like this and setting off
on your own
to
find something to explore
not too shabby is it
so we came from all the way down there
there's our car
up this hill
up up up up to there
hung out up there then along this ridge
zigzag down here
and now we're here guys hanging out with
uh with luke my filmmaker friend back
there he's got me in all sorts of
strange shooting positions like hanging
outside the car so let me know if this
is uh worth risking my life okay here we
go
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oh hiking out there we go
this is
incredible
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okay nick slowly slowly
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alrighty guys it is the next day now
jumping ahead in time i'm here with adam
he's from
uh it's actually a very difficult word
to pronounce
there's that
name i'm arabic on it anyway we are in
hegra now which is a unesco world
heritage site yes wow we're headed into
the site right now and uh
nick and luke are following us in the
other car so we can get some shots of
this car from that car etc so yeah let's
head into hegra this is kind of
the main site of alula here and it's
going to be incredible here we go
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so this is the same civilization from uh
petra yes it is
but petra came first and then yesterday
yeah
amazing so there's tombs all around us
there's even one unfinished one
and um yeah they're pretty pretty
incredible it's hard to believe they
carved away that much rock you said it
it took only two years they estimated
something like that you can imagine this
amazing and complex design which is
influenced from different civilization
this choice is just by simple tools like
chisel and hammer yeah wow so this is
where the bodies were buried
oh my gosh
and you said they found mummies here huh
yes all right guys we're off to the next
site here we go yellow
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all righty guys we have arrived at the
largest tomb
in the whole site of madain salah or
hegra two names for this area that we're
in so here it
is oh my gosh
it is huge and it really does look like
petra from jordan it is absolutely
incredible you can see uh
here
the scratched part at the bottom
this was actually unfinished
so unfortunately
it never
saw completion
but
it's the only one
idea was saying that has four columns
the only tomb here at my day in cell
unfortunately we couldn't use drones
here but i hope i did it justice really
it's impossible to do it justice you've
got to come here to saudi arabia and see
this for yourself because it is just
breathtaking all right we switched roles
now i'm the stunt car driver with luke
the cinematographer here so you're just
gonna direct me
how to drive and how fast and stuff yeah
all right
here we go
now you dougie catch up baby pass them
fast no not you then oh
alrighty guys so we've made it back to
kind of where the tours start here in
hegra i'm actually on some train tracks
right here this is a nice place where
the tourists start they give you some
arabic coffee actually a lot if you're
like me i think i had about seven cups
i mean they're they're little uh they
give you some dates and everything and
there's kind of a little gallery some
history
about the site but yeah apparently this
train
these train tracks were part of
a system during the ottoman times that
linked all the way from here to damascus
and it actually continued on here all
the way to medina so from damascus in
syria all the way to medina here in
saudi arabia i wish it was still running
because that would be an incredible
train journey maybe sometime in the
future they'll they'll revive it here's
all the old
train station buildings
and uh it's pretty it's pretty cool
because it's kind of just out here in
the middle of the desert
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you're doing well i am here in tabuk in
the north of saudi arabia we just made
the drive up from alula it was about
three and a half hours through this just
basically really dark desert middle of
nowhere kind of area of saudi arabia not
much around it was very interesting
anyway yes i've made it up to taboo so
this is going to be the end of the alula
video i hope you guys enjoyed it stay
tuned because i've got a lot more coming
from saudi we're going to be exploring
more of this area up in the north near
the red sea and all that it's going to
be amazing i'm so excited for it thank
you so much for watching and i will see
you in the next one
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