This is very DANGEROUS | Saudi Arabia | [E63]

Let's see if I can do this turn. I'm gonna do a U-turn, so I don't know. My name is Wahib. Wahib? Yeah. I'm Cristina. Oh, Cristina. Very good. Good morning, all my beautiful people. I hope you're doing well. I am so set here with my extreme luggage right now. But I've been here at the NIME to try to figure out why I can't extend my insurance. Because when you're in Saudi Arabia, you need a traffic insurance while you're here. And I tried to fix it online, because when I came to the border, they told me to get one month. Probably took one week, because I want to read the policies and everything about that. And they said I could extend it online, but it didn't work. So, I'm here at the office, and they showed me a special way to do it, apparently. You can't do it on their app. You need to go to the webpage and do some stuff there. But I got some good help, which is great. Just took some time, and now it's very hot outside. Yes, all good. Shukran, man. Shukran. Very helpful people. So, now I have a month of insurance. Yeah, it's getting really warm here, so you have to be careful when you're traveling during the daytime. That's why I don't like to go at 12 o'clock or something like that. I prefer to go either early in the morning, or I go in the night. Because you get barbecued for real during the day. So, you gotta be careful. But today, I will be barbecued, and that's how it is. Just accept it. Accept and move on. So, let's go for some new shoes for my darling. Yesterday, I was next to the beach, and I had a really good time there. Just enjoying the sunset, eating some dates and good stuff. And yeah, watching the sunset, which was so cool. I really liked it, and then some good dinner and that. Let's move on and let the adventure continue. Jamba is a really, like, relaxed place. Next to the beach is the diving paradise here. So, a lot of people come here to do their dive master and stuff. Which I understand, because they have incredible coral reef, apparently, outside of the area I was. The place where I was was fantastic, but they have so much more. So, perhaps another time I come back. This is the second time I snorkel in the Red Sea, and I love it. One of my favorite seas to snorkel. I had to do a stop and get some fuel and one ice cream, because I'm melting. Yep, this was the only one they had, cola. So, let's go for that and enjoy it. And then we continue to Jeddah. This is so nice. In this moment, you want to take an ice bath. But the thing is, it's an experiment. It's a challenge. I want to try it in my life. I travel through minus 40 in a snowmobile, so why not motorcycle plus 45? You know, I'm interested in everything with survival. Survival in the out of the desert, or survival in the cold Sweden. I like to watch this kind of documentary and to challenge myself. Why am I traveling in this time? It's because I want to reach Himalaya, Pakistan and India. And the Himalayas, probably, yeah, during summer. That's why I have to suffer through this. But it's okay. It's okay. Today I went to bed a little late. I should have started earlier. Let's go to a supermarket in Saudi Arabia. Here you have some sweets. They mostly have like these wafer biscuits here. The exotic juice is so delicious. This one is so good. This is a cheese, spread cheese. I think it's like cheddar or something. Spreadable cheese and a lot. But it's good when you're out camping. You can just take this one and you bring it out with some fresh bread. Eat in the morning or in the evening. And then you have this, can things. Usually I take these beans with some pasta if I'm out in the wild. Coffee, tea, and in this one you can even buy clothes. You have these dresses the guys are wearing, you know. I should go on these ones because they love to sit on the ground. So you can buy these chairs. And I don't know how to show you how it looks like. That is a hard machine. Oh good, oh good. Okay, I have to continue. Let's get to Jeddah. That was a lovely stop. Now I'm out in the oven again. The winds that are coming, they're hot. Like mixing with a little bit cooler and then like oven hot winds. But now I have ice cream in my body so I cool down. And I'm very good to go. What did he want? Ah, the driver's license. Okay, he's checking license. No, not a problem. Yeah, sure, yeah, yes. Oh, I finally reached Jeddah. What a trip. This was really interesting and challenging but went pretty fast. Like I've been five hours on the road right now. And I'm soon at the place where I pick up my tires first of all. And then I need to bring them to the garage. So we'll see how I do that. How I will manage. Maybe I put them around my waist or around my luggage. We will see. We're gonna drive to the shop. There's no delivery service here so we gotta take it ourselves. In our own hands and figure it out. I hope I can drive like this. It should be all right. Let's go. Oh, okay. It's a little bit hard with the turns but it's okay. See if I can do this turn. I'm gonna do a U-turn so I don't know if I have some good angles. Like this. Yeah, no problem, no problem. She's been riding on these shoes for almost 8 000 kilometers. And they're secondhand. Like I bought this motorcycle secondhand with the tires. I don't know how much they drove with the tires but I assume it was not that much. And the tires are pretty good. The Michelin Anarchy, they have lasted a long time. That's a problem with them. A lot of people are laughing at me. Yes. It's fantastic. Just changing shoes. Like, hi, of course. They're very social over here. They like it. And they're very good in English. I'm surprised. Wow, Saudi is really... A lot of them speak English. Some pretty cool bikes. But baby gonna stay in there and change her shoes. This is the one we're gonna get. K60 Ranger from Heidenau. Thank you so much. Best people ever here, okay? Yeah, I have my maps. Not the first one. Yeah. The second one, right? Yeah. Go straight. Then right. Straight. Then I'll find it there. No, no, no. We got new shoes. Nice bike. These guys are amazing. Thank you. We have new shoes. Always a little bit strange when you have the new shoes. It's a little bit more off-roadish, these tires. And they are like 60-40. 60% off-road. 40 on exactly what I wanted. Yeah, this place. Come on, the guys were so kind. We had lunch there. And yeah, it went really quick. Everything is smooth. All right, ready to go, guys. I thought I would go and see if the tallest fountain in the world is on, apparently. And they have that here in Jeddah. A fountain which is accordingly like over 200 meters high. So I thought, why not go for a little cruise in the night and see if it's on? Oh, look at all the kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty cats. So many cats. And they're very friendly here in Jeddah, the cats. Super cute. Today we almost had like 45 degrees, I think it was. I said that on my meters. Ah, I'm trying to concentrate here. Are you gonna go? Okay, he's going. Perfect. So yeah, it was warm. But interesting. You know what happened as well? Like, I slept at my host's place. And we went to sleep at like one o'clock. Which is pretty normal here. And I think I was extremely exhausted because of the heat when I was driving to Jeddah. So went to bed at one something. And guess when I woke up? Give a guess. 11.30. I haven't woken up that late in like, I don't know, ages. That was a sign of exhaustion. Yep, 11.30. I had alarms on but I didn't wake up from the alarms, nothing. I was absolutely dead. It's a bit of traffic jam here right now because it's evening. People are coming back from work. And people are gathering in the evenings as well. They go in and have some picnics and just hang out together. It's very crowded in the evenings. But I like Jeddah so far a lot. It has a lot to offer here. It's very modern. All right, here we are going. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm gonna go in this little hole here. So this is where they have their Formula One in Jeddah. What else? It's a big port town. Could it be like the second largest city? Or the third largest city in Saudi Arabia? Question mark on that. What else? Delicious food. Great people. I like it. Here you have the largest flag in the world, I think it is. Wow. Okay, we're gonna take the third exit from here. Third one. I can see it to the left. You will soon watch it as well. The tallest fountain in the world. There's so many cars here. Wow. The ice cream truck, coffee trucks, a lot of things. All right, we got to see it. The highest fountain in the world. The tallest fountain in the world. So this is where Sarek will stay tonight. She's in a fuel station. Because it's the safest place to put your hair in Jeddah apparently. So she will stay here together with the little cat here. Doesn't look that happy. But probably tired. All right, so I made it to my host's place. And I will definitely just jump into the bed right now. Because I'm so tired. And Sarek, she's staying next to the fuel station. Because I'm in a little apartment area. So I parked her in the fuel station. And they will have a look after her apparently. So that's great. This is a cool lamp. So yeah, got to bed. And that's it. So thank you so much for joining my adventure from Sweden to Nepal. Like, share, comment and subscribe as well. And join my Patreon family. It's more behind the scenes exclusive material. Take care and I see you soon. I can't get it up.