With this package, guests can experience the quintessential desert lifestyle and uncover the various secrets hidden within the famed
Rub' al Khali. "
The
Rub' Al Khali desert is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Jurassic trend there runs to the Ma'reb/Jawf graben, across Shabwa, and to the Saudi part of
Rub' Al Khali.
Oman Air's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Paul Gregorowitsch said, "A key work area of interest to Oman Air is the opening of the airspace in the "Empty Quarter" or
Rub' al Khali. This will lead to reduction in fuel and time savings for WY (Oman Air) flights going to GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, especially Jeddah and Medina."
At nearly 600,000km 2 , the sandy wilderness of
Rub' al Khali - also known as the Empty Quarter - covers a huge tract of the Arabian Peninsula that is comparable in size to the whole of France.
Sixth in a series of doggy adventures, "The Adventures of Sigi: A Day in the
Rub' al Khali" takes Sigi all the way from Florida to visit a cousin, Matar, a Sluki dog who lives in a desert near the Arabian Sea.
The Empty Quarter - or
Rub' al Khali - is the largest sand desert in the world and the second largest desert after the Sahara.
Along its southeastern periphery the
Rub' al Khali spills over from Saudi Arabia into the United Arab Emirates.
In the last 50 years, only three westerners have crossed the
Rub' al Khali, also known as Arabia's Empty Quarter, one of the largest sand deserts in the world.
We have discovered commercially-utilisable volumes of the various types of natural gas in the Red Sea, in the north of the kingdom and in the
Rub' al Khali."
Since then the petroleum ministry has offered vast areas for gas E&P in the
Rub' al Khali region (see omt13SaudiGeoSep28-09).