Wadi Hanifah
Desert valley of restored wetlands, lakes and trails, busy with weekend picnics and barbecues.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wadi Hanifah in Riyadh starts on an Eid holiday in April twenty twenty-five, with a Lebanese visitor at a family barbecue telling a reporter how he is spending the day. It follows the valley's decades along the edge of a booming capital, the authority's plan of nineteen eighty-six and the treated water that now feeds its lakes and wetlands. You'll also hear about the weekend walkers, the desert trail loop and the runners who know it. Best heard on the walkways near the water.
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