This is the sixth and last part in a series about travels in Saudi Arabia, along the line of the Hejaz railway. To reach Ain Sokhna (a Red Sea port near Suez) from Yanbu required about thirty hours of sailing. Only near Sharm el Sheikh did the Splendida approach the shore. The sun was warm, More

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