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A date with a touch of Saudi Arabia.

A historic neighbourhood, coffee or art gives a date in Saudi Arabia more focus than a long list of sights.

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4 plans you can actually try.

Use the country as inspiration. Check local opening hours and make a plan together.

Combine two local ideas

Choose a combination. Are both ideas out of the question? Find places close to each other or spread the two ideas over two days.

Go out and taste something

  1. Rawashin in Al Balad

    Walk through the public area of historic Jeddah and look together for the wooden window structures, rawashin, on the façades.

  2. Saudi coffee and dates

    Find a café or heritage site serving Saudi coffee and dates, and compare two varieties of dates.

Try two new things

  1. Rawashin in Al Balad

    Walk through the public area of historic Jeddah and look together for the wooden window structures, rawashin, on the façades.

  2. Evening walk by the Red Sea

    Choose a publicly accessible promenade in Jeddah and take a short walk along the water before having a drink.

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Outdoors
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Indoors or outdoors
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