Neom

 Neom 

We drove up the coast and after Duba, we were stopped at the first security check point for the Neom Project.

This is an unbelieveable project to build a whole new city in the desert. Its major building will be a 105 kilometre long skyscraper.. The plans call for a 125 metre high dam in the mountains where the retaining wall will slope outwards defying conventional dam engineering principles.

A new motorway has been built, parallel to the existing main road for the sole use of construction traffic. Billions of tons of spoil has to be moved. Whole mountains are to be dug out and crushed to provide aggregate for the construction of new buildings.

The project is so vast, that a new port is being built.

A new power station is being built with power lines stretching across the desert to feed both the city and the surrounding area and export power to Jordan.

New power lines.

A whole new city is being built to house the construction workers who will be building the new city. It is truely a mega project.