“I last found myself here, inadvertently, in March 2020. My planned journey from the Saudi tourism hub of Al Ula to the Yemeni island of Socotra collapsed when the flight to Cairo was cancelled as frontiers slammed shut.
Rather than taking that as an early sign of an impending travel shutdown and seeking the fastest route home, I stubbornly caught a bus to the last town in Saudi Arabia and found a fixer who bundled me, a Russian and a German across the border to Aqaba in his ancient taxi.”
Read more here courtesy of Independent.co.uk
