LONDON • Al-Ula is not exactly the best place to be at this time of the year.
Although this small settlement of about 5,000 people in the north-western tip of Saudi Arabia boasts a World Heritage Site and has plenty of tourism potential since it sat on the network of routes transporting spices between India and Europe for well over a millennium, it is usually enveloped in gloomy, grey desert clouds and an oppressive, sweltering heat in August.
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