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MECCA
The Holy Land of Saudi Arabia


There’s only one holy land for all Moslems in the world, located inside the town of Mecca, called the land of Haraam. In the land of Haraam, we can locate the world’s most sacred place for Moslems, the Haraam Mosque. Like all towns in the world, Mecca has some places of interests, like Nur Mountain, Arafah, and all historic places related to Islam. In Hajj season, you can fly directly from Surabaya to Jeddah, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. But most occasions, like Umrah, you have to go to another country first, then to Saudi Arabia. Like all journeys to other countries, you need your passports and visas, which is very important. It takes about 9-10 hours to go there.
There are also some shopping places and places to eat. They offer nice quality amenities like furniture, clothes, gadgets, etc. and nice and tasty food. Well, we can’t say that all food there is tasty, because of a different taste in culinary, but we still can find some fast food restaurant like Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFC, McDonald’s, Hardee’s, and so much more. We can go around Mecca by bus, which costs only 2 SAR. If you want to go by taxi, it’s much more expensive, around 10-20 times more than buses. We can rent a room in a hotel, the price varies, starting from 100 SAR. Some hotels offer intercontinental dishes. I can have Indonesian food there. But some local food is nice as well. You can try kebab, it’s the nicest food I’ve ever had there, if you know how to find the right cook. You can find fresh food, like milk, bread, vegetables, and so on. Because the bakery always bake bread every morning after the dusk prayer, so it’s really fresh and that what makes the prices of bread is so cheap and they have very nice taste.
Since it’s not an ordinary land, you can’t do anything as you wish. All kind of bad deeds will be punished immediately. In the other hand, if you do good deeds, the rewards will be given immediately. So everything needs to be done carefully. There’s one thing that needs to be done all the time there, which is, remembering the name of Allah.
Well, I guess that’s all that I can tell about Mecca. Oh, and one last thing, you have to be a Moslem to enter that city. Not to mention about some discrimination, but it’s a special place, not everyone is allowed to go inside that city. :)


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