Saudi Arabia: Some Basic Information part-two:

Saudi Arabian Airlines helps you fulfill your religious obligations and exerts the utmost efforts to ensure your comfort and convenience as you go about your religious duties.

Saudi Arabian Airlines Umrah Programs include visits to historical sites in Makkah and Madinah as well as shopping opportunities in Jeddah, with its abundance of malls and shops offering all ranges of goods, from designer fashions to electronic items.

Umrah Stopovers are offered to those who want to perform Umrah when travelling from one country to another, using Jeddah as a transit stop. This is a convenient way for travellers from Europe to Asia, and vice versa to be able to fulfill their religious obligations while going about their normal travel activities, whether these be for business, tourism or to visit friends and relatives.

TDS is a visa agency that has been helping international travelers since 1985.

We work closely with the U.S. Passport Agency and Embassies senting many governments, so that international travelers can depart on very short notice, for many worldwide destinations. TDS provides visa services for U.S. citizens for most countries for which an entry visa is required, and can also assist U.S. permanent residents with visas for many countries.

Religious Travel(Haj/Umra) and Business Travel required:

1- Passport must be Valid 3 months Beyond Intended Stay

2- Tickets and Documents for Return or Onward Travel

3- Visa is Required

4- Vaccinations - International Certificate of Vaccination required for Yellow Fever if Arriving from Infected Area within 5 days.

Pumping the lifeblood of industrial economies, Saudi Arabia exports more oil than any other nation and holds 25 percent of the world's proven reserves. To increase non-oil exports, economic diversification emphasizes manufacturing and irrigated farming, which draws on limited underground water supplies.

King Abd al-Aziz Al Saud merged warring Bedouin tribes to form Saudi Arabia in 1932. Succession has fallen in turn to four sons, governing through consultation with others in the royal family, religious leaders, and technocrats. A major supporter of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf war, the country served as operations base for coalition forces.

In this conservative monarchy, underpinned by Islamic law, women live in veiled segregation but begin to play a wider role. Saudi Arabia is keeper of Islam's most sacred cities: Mecca, where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have received the word of God, and Medina, where he died in A.D. 632.

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