Edge of the World
Sheer limestone cliffs dropping about 300 metres to an ancient seabed, with fossils underfoot.
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This guide to the Edge of the World outside Riyadh is about appetite on a cliff top, from the corals and clams of a vanished warm sea to the picnics that now line the rim at sunset. You'll meet a Texas professor, a Riyadh tour operator, a French explorer who arrived when there were no roads, and a guide who drove out with a restaurant's worth of lamb mandi. Best heard sitting on a flat rock near the edge.
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