Life in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Life in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, usually the first picture that one shall get is a land of restriction,a land that has confide itself to majorly only two colours say black and white. True I can't disagree the fact that it has confined itself to only two colours but its not a bad place to live. I am basically an Indian and have moved into KSA a few months back post my marriage.I to had many inhibitions about this place, the culture etc etc. But right from the moment I have arrived here neither have I felt any cultural shock nor any strange feeling which i was anticipating .Yes females do have to face certain restrictions like they have to wear a Abhaya(Black robe) when they are out,going out alone is a bit rare here(but women do go out). Working is some thing which is again rare, but again there are schools were one can get teaching jobs. So its actually not that bad as we all feel.

Women here are respected a lot (I enjoy that a lot!!!). Thrusday's and Friday's are family day out so single guys out there gonna be tuff time for you. Infrastructure is awesome here -I usually wear sport shoes for my weekly shopping so now u can guess how huge the malls out here are. Currently I stay at Taif which is a hill station in Saudi Arabia,but we do frequently visit Jeddah which is only 250 Kms from here. For all you homemakers who are planning to come here there is no need to worry you get all your food related stuffs and TV serials here so you wont miss any thing great. And how can I not mention food, dishes here are fantastic the best of the lot are phool and tamez (we make it a point to have it every friday and be live me I wait the whole week for friday). Phool is a gravy dish made out of various pulses (I am still searching for its recipe) and tameez is a huge big roti, the other lovely dish is mutabak-roti with egges in it.All I can say is its all a matter of perspective, change the way you look at things and things change the way they are. Life turns beautiful then. So go ahead and have a whole new experience

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