Olaya Street Shopping

Olaya Street is a bustling busy shopping area in the heart of Riyadh with the tall Faisaliah Center building and its distinctive pyramid shape and a globe structure housing a restaurant near the very top and in the far distance the taller Kingdom Tower with its distinctive key opener shape. These two buildings house two of the biggest and major shopping malls that attract middle and upper end families from all over the city. In between are shops galore, hotels, residence apartments, and top restaurants.
The view above is looking northwest from very near the location of the computer sooq where the geek to the novice shop for computer wares and black market software openly sold on the street by the "little brown men" who some times run to you as you are parking your car often two or three coming with lists of software they can provide you at 10 SAR per disc or roughly $3.00 for any software product.