Last weekend was the Cub Scout trip to Shaybah located in the very empty Rub Al Khali desert. It would have been an unworkable trip by car but was only an hour flight in a comfortable Saudi Aramco aircraft. I’ve seen pictures of the dunes at Shaybah before and always thought that camera angles were used to make them seem extra impressive. If anything, the lack of reference points and monocolor of the sand make it very difficult to capture the size of the dunes. They are as or more impressive than the pictures make them seem.
