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HAFIRAT NISAH, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – A PLACE WHERE THE DESERT COLORS BLEND

Updated: Nov 14

Pack your bags, prepare your camera, and remember to bring water, drinks, and food. Explore the desert villages and be ready to experience the swift changes of sights from open land to green-covered sites. Be in a world where the colors vary from golden to grey, black, blue, and white.

Hafirat Nisah is a village under the Muzahamiyah Governorate, southwestern Riyadh Province. Tourists may not often visit this small village, which may not be as famous as the other tourist spots in the Kingdom. Still, Hafirat Nisah has bright, unique, and inducing sights of mountain formations and radiating aura of the desert that can easily magnetize attention and curiosity to look further and explore deeper. You can even compare or level with other tourist spots, like Redsand Dune and The Edge of the World.

The 150 km drive from Riyadh city center will bring you to the mesmerizing sights of the valley's multiple colors. You will realize its unusual characteristics once you roll from the mountaintop to the farmlands, desert parks, and dunes. You might suddenly move without notice, your adrenalin rushing fast and soaring high.

As a farm village, other than the unique sights it offers, you can find here vegetable farms, flower farms, nurseries of ornamental plants, flower-bearing trees for park landscaping, fruit-bearing trees for orchards, and other perennial forest trees for forest planting.

Coming here offers multiple treats in exploring the desert places of Riyadh Province. Your trip will never be dull from the time you start steering the wheels to pulling over to your destination. Other than Hafirat Nisah, there are tourist attractions you can add to the itinerary before ending here as the final destination for the day.