If you have booked a hotel in Makkah and another in Madinah, the question you actually need answered before you book any transport is a simple one: will the car come to my hotel, and will it drop me at my hotel at the other end? The short answer is yes. We collect from hotels…
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped stone structure at the center of Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. Muslims around the world face the Kaaba during their five daily prayers, and every pilgrim performing Hajj or Umrah walks around it seven times as part of…
Few sources of water anywhere in the world carry the weight of history and meaning that the Zamzam Well does. Tucked beneath the marble floor of the Mataf, just steps from the Kaaba, this well has supplied pilgrims with water for thousands of years — and it remains one of the first things new visitors…
Beyond the Tawaf and Sa’i performed inside Masjid al-Haram, many pilgrims set aside time during their Umrah or Hajj trip to visit the historic sites scattered around Makkah. These visits are known as Ziyarat – a practice that isn’t a formal pilgrimage rite, but one that connects visitors to the earliest history of Islam. This…
For every Muslim who travels to Makkah, Masjid al-Haram is the destination that everything else — the flight, the hotel, the taxi ride – is really about. It is the largest mosque in the world, built around the Kaaba, and it is the place toward which Muslims everywhere direct their prayers five times a day….