The 'Edge of the World' is a popular sight seeing point of interest northwest of Riyadh. As you approach the edge of the escarpment running nearly south to north through a wide valley laced with Acadia trees along the wadi that winds its way you soon see a notch in the escarpment wall and are wowed by the view looking west. The drop off is over 300 meters down to the next valley floor with numerous wadis heading off into the distance. At the edge of our view is the town of Al Barrah and the remains of an old sandstone Turkish fort nearby complete with a deep well, a guard tower, and a few old farms.

This gives one a view along the escarpment wall looking south.

If you look closely you'll notice the clothing is snug in front and flapping in the back. The wind was blowing over 40km/hr and facing the wind head on has its own fun. Hence, we stayed clear of the edge itself to be on the safe side. Little flakes of sand would tingle as they struck us directly in the face or any exposed flesh. Marie is just laughing standing asking me to take the photo shot quickly.

Now what is Mick doing. Oh yea, taking a GPS coordinate. Perhaps we are not at the right spot. Nah, we are at the right spot and the YM in our ward are making a trail to the bottom and back up. Three car loads from our ward made the 2-hour trek from Riyadh. The last 1-hour was over the rough teraine suited best for the 4-wheel drive vehicles in which we travelled. The YM group stayed much longer taking a 10km hike while our vehicle headed back to Riyadh to enjoy the remaining hours of our Thursday afternoon.