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Originally Posted by mani
not being biased but mecca is an awesome size and design. at night its just stunning the wya they've done the lighting.
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Yep , got to agree with you, impressive , I used to take the shortcut (avoiding the much longer 'Christian by-pass' ) thru Mecca when driving from Jeddah to Taif when I lived in Saudi during the 80s, only did it during nightime hours when the guards/mutawas were usually asleep , I used to stop at one store to buy burial shrouds for my Mums neighbours in Gt.Harwood, still have some beads from Mecca hanging from my rear view mirror. The place was scary when the rebels took over the Kabba in 80/81 and the French Foriegn Legion came in to clear them out . Would be interesting to know if they had any link to the presant day Taliban , I know Bin Ladens old man did a lot of construction work around the Kabba .