Exploring Buraydah Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Good morning, people. Welcome back to the channel. It is currently 8:32 in the morning. I am heading to Buraidah. Super looking forward to. Just want to get outside of Riyadh, travel a little bit. We are currently just waiting for the Uber.

[00:00:16]I literally have zero things planned.

[00:00:19]Just my bag. I did pack one extra piece of clothing just in case I do want to stay the night, because who knows? Okay, our Uber driver is here.

[00:00:28]As-salamu alaykum.

[00:00:38]Today I'm heading to Buraidah.

[00:00:41]Yes, yes. I want to go and travel and explore. Have you been to Buraidah?

[00:00:45]No? Where have you been in Saudi Arabia?

[00:00:48]Just Riyadh best? Jeddah, Mecca, Jizan?

[00:00:54]You have never traveled?

[00:00:58]Jeddawi?

[00:01:09]How far are we away? 26 minutes?

[00:01:12]So, we will arrive at what time? 10?

[00:01:16]We'll arrive at 9:10? Perfect. No, no, but here is fine. Perfect.

[00:01:20]Take care. Thank you so much.

[00:01:28]Okay, we have arrived at the metros. Oh.

[00:01:32]We have arrived at the train station.

[00:01:34]What a nice guy he was. I've actually never been to Why do I keep saying train station? It's actually a bus station.

[00:01:39]But, uh, we've arrived. Nonetheless, it's 9:03.

[00:01:43]Uh, our bus is at 10, and the guy told us to be there at 9 uh, 9:30. So, let's go in, check it out, and, uh, pick up my ticket. As-salamu alaykum.

[00:01:58]Yemen? Yemen?

[00:02:01]Okay.

[00:02:03]Ireland Ireland, Ireland This one? Yes.

[00:02:19]Who has entry up there?

[00:02:26]This is the bus station for anyone that wants to know.

[00:02:31]No, no, it's okay. I have my ticket, habibi. Let's see if we can find our station. Oh, yeah, there. Here we go.

[00:02:46]I have a ticket to Buraidah. Yes. I have the ticket. Do I have to do anything? He said just come here at 9:30. Okay, what's uh what uh 9:30, come here. 9:30?

[00:02:55]Uh bus leave at 10:00. Ask him. That's for him or her? Yeah.

[00:03:02]I have a ticket for to Buraidah at 10:00. Okay, at 10:30. Uh no, 10:00 just 10:00 a.m. Okay, I will give you that ticket. Shukran. You have to go now, straight left and the gate number eight.

[00:03:14]Gate number eight?

[00:03:15]>> Yeah. Shukran. Yeah, okay.

[00:03:17]Gate eight, please, habibi.

[00:03:22]This color red Yeah. left left Yeah.

[00:03:30]Gate number eight. Shukran.

[00:03:33]I can see they sell now a few lot of things that you would jump on at bus way. Bus station they're well stocked, that's for sure.

[00:03:42]They have a lot of uh stations where you can kind of grab some snacks for long journeys ahead.

[00:03:48]This one? You got it.

[00:03:50]Oh, iPhone. This is uh This is this type C? Uh type C. Yeah, sure.

[00:03:58]Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want the long ones. We can The feeling of uh having headphones again. Honestly, they're way better.

[00:04:09]For those who know like the old headphones, the ones with the long cables like this, way louder, way better.

[00:04:14]I'm going to drink this.

[00:04:15]Train is at got to be boarding like 10 minutes.

[00:04:19]And uh yeah, let's go to Buraidah.

[00:04:26]Thank you.

[00:04:35]We're finally on the train. Actually, they have a toilet, which is quite nice.

[00:04:38]You never know when you need that, but I'm going to sit right down at the uh back.

[00:04:45]It wasn't that bad actually getting onto the train, to be honest. Uh why do I keep saying train? Onto the onto the bus. So, this is Darb Al-Watan, and you can see we have some charger cases.

[00:04:57]There is some AC blown. Seats are leather, which are quite comfortable.

[00:05:03]Very comfortable, actually. Good spacious legroom, so happy with that.

[00:05:16]Dark blue croissant. Yeah, no added sugar.

[00:05:27]Thank you.

[00:05:28]Thank you. Salaam alaikum.

[00:05:31]Kef halak? Hello and welcome. Hello, hello. How are you?

[00:05:34]>> I'm amazing. Good AC, Wi-Fi. Seats were nice. Seats were comfortable.

[00:05:39]I was happy with it, you know?

[00:05:41]Oh, this is your this is yours?

[00:05:42]Masha'Allah. Jetour. Uh can I drop my bag in the back? Is that okay? Yeah, yeah. Perfect.

[00:05:48]Hey, this this car is beautiful, by the way.

[00:05:50]Matte black.

[00:05:52]Literally just got it a few months ago.

[00:05:53]Really? Yeah. Man, it's sick.

[00:05:55]This is Ibrahim? Yeah. Yeah? He's essentially like a Irish at this point cuz I can hear the accent. So, I don't know too much. So, you've studied in Ireland for how long? Uh I've been there since I got there in February of 2009. Yeah.

[00:06:13]And I stayed there until uh July 2016. Can I come back? Can I come back? How old do you think I am? Uh how old are you? Bro, I can't get uh I I can't I People keep telling me that you've got the you know you I don't want to guess wrong. I don't want to insult you. Let's say >> It's not insulting, trust me.

[00:06:35]Uh 20 years old? 28?

[00:06:39]Oh. No? Uh higher, a lot higher.

[00:06:43]Uh how much did I say? How much did I say? 13?

[00:06:48]36? Yeah. Okay, guess how old I am.

[00:06:52]If you had to guess.

[00:06:54]Uh I wouldn't give you anything above 28, I'd say. I'm lower than 28. Yeah. 24?

[00:07:01]Uh one year higher. 25?

[00:07:03]>> 25, yeah, yeah, yeah. So many people ask me like the questions of Saudi Arabia and all like that, you know what I mean?

[00:07:07]Yeah. Uh all of that. But now I get the chance to to put it to someone who's been in Ireland and ask that question, you know? What What is Ireland like?

[00:07:15]I get to ask this to a Saudi person now.

[00:07:17]What is Ireland like from a Saudi perspective?

[00:07:21]And be honest.

[00:07:22]Uh Ireland, to be honest, was a second home to me. Really? Yeah, it it took me some adjustment when I came back home because I've spent so much time in Ireland. It wasn't a year or two or three, actually it was Is it You said 8 years or 9 years? 7 and 1/2 years.

[00:07:36]>> 7 and 1/2 years.

[00:07:38]>> I spent the first four or five months uh that in Tralee in County Kerry.

[00:07:44]>> Yeah.

[00:07:45]And then I moved to Dublin then. Yeah.

[00:07:47]And the accents are completely different.

[00:07:49]>> Yeah. Uh yeah.

[00:07:50]>> Completely different. You can You can tell the difference between a north and a south Dublin accent. Would you be able to describe that as in like Would that be different Would that be the same as like uh Riyadh, Saudi versus Jeddah or no?

[00:08:03]Yeah. Yeah. Similar? Yeah. So, 7 years in in Ireland. Yeah. And what were the main differences?

[00:08:10]Uh Or well, why did it feel like home?

[00:08:12]Like what was it? People, weather.

[00:08:15]People were like my my perception before I went there were that people are friendly, but it's not the majority weren't as friendly.

[00:08:29]Really? Yeah. That was That was my perception before I went.

[00:08:32]>> Okay. But when I actually got there, it was the complete opposite.

[00:08:37]I I kind of wish there was somewhere else other than Kerry.

[00:08:40]Uh what did you think of Kerry?

[00:08:42]>> [laughter] >> Kerry people were nice, but it's um like You've been to Saudi. You know our lifestyle. Kerry is dead by 6:00 p.m.

[00:08:54]6:00 p.m.

[00:08:55]>> Absolutely. Yeah. 6:00 p.m. it's dead.

[00:08:57]Completely dead. So, after 6:00 p.m.

[00:09:00]you're literally just sitting at home doing nothing. doing nothing.

[00:09:03]>> And what what did you do actually? Yeah, cuz like in Saudi, everything opens at nighttime. So, what did you do in Ireland like It took me some time. Uh Kerry, luckily, I didn't stay there for a long time. I only stayed there for like 4 and 1/2 5 months.

[00:09:14]>> Okay.

[00:09:15]Um But still Dublin still is not the same, but still closes, doesn't it? It closes, but it like if you go out, you can find some place to go to. You can find some restaurants, uh some areas that you can go into, but majority of the malls, they close early.

[00:09:32]Yeah. Majority of the restaurants do close early, but if you do want to go out, you have options. Yeah. But when it comes to Tralee, you you actually had no options.

[00:09:41]Like the only things that were open after 6:00 p.m. are bars. That was it.

[00:09:44][laughter] Which is more expensive?

[00:09:47]Definitely Ireland. Yeah? Ireland now Now, yeah. is way much expensive than it was back when I was there. Like this is why a lot of actually like people like myself and and and I move away from Ireland because we can't afford it. It's too expensive, man. Yeah, and and the wages I know there are a lot of unions and I actually still keep tabs on Ireland. Really? Like I listen to the Irish news.

[00:10:12]>> Yeah.

[00:10:13]Uh I like listening to the Irish voice.

[00:10:16]>> I was going to I had a couple of video ideas I'm going to test you on some maybe like Irish words if you knew some and stuff like that. I actually still have on my phone, this phone, I have the app for FM 104, Dublin. Ah, FM 104, yeah. Do you know any yeah cuz obviously we speak our own language, Welsh. Do you know any? No. You do yeah you don't know anything, yeah. My first experience in in Ireland was in because I got there in February.

[00:10:38]And you know what happens on March 17th?

[00:10:40]Yeah, St. Paddy's Day. Yeah. St. Patrick's Day. So, my first Paddy's Day was actually in Tralee, in town, getting in the parade with all the people, >> Yeah. wearing green, and just, you know, getting along with the people and seeing what the the the big fuss is about.

[00:10:55]>> Did did you know what St. Patrick's Day was? I knew. Before I went there, I knew actually, but I didn't know it was a big massive thing until I actually went there and I got to see it first hand.

[00:11:06]And I thought in Tralee it was big, but the year after that when I was in Dublin, it was way bigger. As a Saudi who's been to Ireland for 7, 8, 10 years, whatever, would you would you recommend going? It depends what your like why are you going there? Let's say a 7-day holiday. Yeah, but in your 7-day holiday, some people would prefer some kind of activities, some kind of luxury. Okay. want to go to theme parks, they want to go swimming during their thing, they want to go to the beaches.

[00:11:36]Yeah. So, it really depends on the kind of activities you do. Okay. If you do like nature, Like Ireland.

[00:11:44]>> yeah, I would recommend Ireland because I actually took I think it was around 2013 or 14 when I got my car.

[00:11:53]>> Yeah.

[00:11:54]Uh I went down the Ring of Kerry.

[00:11:57]I haven't been to Kerry in a while, but I know the Ring of Kerry. Yeah, I went through the Ring of Kerry. I went to Cliffs of Moher. Yeah, I know that. Uh and then I went all the way to Galway and I went to Galway Castle. Uh it's it's really really nice.

[00:12:11]Uh definitely recommend you actually get in a car when you get there so you can just explore. Yeah. And you wouldn't get bored. But if you're in if you're the kind of person that likes um going to cafes and luxury and shopping and these things, I don't think Ireland cuts it for you. And and even like activities and like adrenaline activities, I feel like there's probably not like it's It is more of a scenic nature that kind of stuff, isn't it? Yeah.

[00:12:40]I don't know.

[00:12:41]So, the plan is we're going to go for food now. Where are we going? Do you Uh There is a street that has probably like 50 or so restaurants. I think yeah, a lot of people recommended it. It's like a cafe street as well, I've seen.

[00:12:55]>> Yeah. Yeah. Uh I'll give you your options and you get to pick your pick. I'll I'll I'll give you a lot of options and then I'll give you my own recommendations. It depends on what kind of food that you like, but Well, I love like kebabs. I like kebabs, I like shawarma, mandi, all these kind of restaurants. I have a I have I have a plan for for a traditional meal. I think it would be better if we do it tomorrow, earlier tomorrow.

[00:13:21]>> Uh you'd love it. It's it's a whole experience with the food.

[00:13:24]>> Yeah.

[00:13:25]So, we'll go to some food and just I'm just going to take along with me and see what we get up to. That's the plan.

[00:13:30]First impressions so far of Buraidah is actually quite green. It's like he was saying, the population here in Buraidah is about like 700,000, whereas in Riyadh it's like I don't know, a couple of million.

[00:13:42]Definitely less traffic, for sure, and a lot more green, I would say. And guys, if you are new to the channel, make sure to drop the video a like. It does help out the algorithm a lot. What do you want to get there?

[00:13:52]Huh?

[00:13:55]Smoky burger, and then I'm going to go with sweet potato fries, and a a water. Would you like cheese on yours?

[00:14:02]Uh no, no, I'm okay. Are you getting cheese on yours?

[00:14:05]>> No. No, no, no.

[00:14:06]Majlis is like the actual translation is a living room.

[00:14:11]Oh, yeah, that's what I meant. I thought people where a lot of people sit and just chill down there, you know?

[00:14:16]Uh that's something I've noticed, and you've probably noticed the opposite.

[00:14:19]Yeah.

[00:14:20]Irish people, we don't like sit down and chill like in places like that and have coffee and tea and family.

[00:14:26]Uh we're probably less family connected compared to Arabs, where >> Yeah. For example, a son and his family, he's living away from his family in a different place.

[00:14:36]But they're still in the same city, but they wouldn't see each other until Christmas.

[00:14:39]>> No, for sure they wouldn't. Like they wouldn't go and drive across >> Yeah, yeah. Like how um your family would go and see you in Ireland, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Multiple times or just a couple of times? Uh over my 7 years, yearly. I'd say yearly.

[00:14:50]If I don't show up, they would show up.

[00:14:56]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I've actually been to one of these in Al Majma'ah, Al Majma'ah. What What do they call them there?

[00:15:25]I forget I forget I forget the name. I forget the name of it. These kind of places they call them istiraha.

[00:15:31]And in some other places they might call them chalet. You didn't have these in Ireland, did you? No. No, I know, but there wasn't like a place where a lot of Arabs would go and just chill in Ireland. No? Someone's apartment. Did anyone like offer you like pay for your kind of stuff or coffee or food or treat you out cuz you're new in Ireland?

[00:15:48]Just curious. Uh I think it may happened once or twice.

[00:15:52]>> Yeah. Uh from Irish people.

[00:15:55]>> Yeah.

[00:15:56]Uh one of them invited me to my first Sunday dinner in their house.

[00:16:02]Uh and one of them actually invited me over to a restaurant where he took me out uh went to a restaurant. We had food and then he I think it was my first couple of months in Dublin where he showed me around O'Connell Street.

[00:16:15]The whole city kind of Yeah. It was that kind of part of the city.

[00:16:18]>> Yeah. And we actually I I think until this day we we still keep in You're still a friend? Yeah, we we still keep in contact with him.

[00:16:25]>> Do you Do you think um one of the stereotypes is because we think not not me of course cuz I know now, but like the Westerns we think Arabs and Saudis and Emirati whatever they have loads of money. They'll take care of us. Whereas in you go to Ireland we don't have that much money. We're not going to pay for your even though you're coming and you're you're probably living in in amazing the Beacon and stuff like that. We're like he can pay for himself.

[00:16:47]He's okay. But I'll say hello to you.

[00:16:49]Yeah. But I'm not going to Yeah. pay for all your food. Did you find that kind of happened a little bit? It Or do you say it's true? It is true.

[00:16:57]But that's all built on the fact that there's a stereotype fixed with that kind of situation.

[00:17:06]>> Like a narrative?

[00:17:07]Yeah, it's like you Middle Eastern guys are coming here, so you're coming from a lot of money.

[00:17:14]It's not true for everyone. Oh, I know.

[00:17:16]I've seen it now. Yeah, I've seen it.

[00:17:18]It's basically based on that, based on that stereotype. That's why like some of the people there would say, "Oh, you you're coming from there. You're living in, for example, Beacon or you're living here or there."

[00:17:28]>> So, I'm not going to pay for you. You're going to pay for yourself.

[00:17:30]>> Yeah, for sure. But, you could be on the same actual financial background.

[00:17:34]Absolutely.

[00:17:34]>> You're just from different places of the We're just stereotyping.

[00:17:37]>> Yeah. You're you're just stereotyping.

[00:17:38]And since I've traveled around different countries and I'm in Kuwait and Dubai and stuff like that, not all Arabs are rich. Yeah. I've noticed that. They're not all rich. It's a bit colder here than Riyadh. Really? Yeah, because >> cuz it's open more than the desert.

[00:17:50]>> it's open more, yeah.

[00:17:56]Hey, you should tell this guy all the Arabic words you've learned. What have you learned? I but it's here when I say it, I don't know. It just comes out, you know?

[00:18:03]Wow. It's beautiful.

[00:18:06]How much does a bike like this cost?

[00:18:08]It's about 90,000 rial. 90,000 rial?

[00:18:12]And how long have you had it?

[00:18:14]Almost 21 year right now. One year?

[00:18:17]Masha'Allah. So, how do I do it?

[00:18:20]I just rev it, sah?

[00:18:22]It's pretty loud.

[00:18:23]I don't want to drive it cuz I'll just do it there.

[00:18:33]How fast do you reckon it goes?

[00:18:35]It can can go up to 200 k. Oh, 200 k?

[00:18:39]The maximum 165. 165?

[00:18:42]You drive 165, eh? Definitely not me.

[00:18:45]Only once.

[00:18:49]Masha'Allah.

[00:18:51]How do I turn it off?

[00:18:54]Oh, here?

[00:18:57]I don't want to break it, yani.

[00:18:58]Wow, amazing. Literally was just chilling inside.

[00:19:03]Now, I'm chilling outside here. Look how beautiful this is. So, just going with the vibes, guys.

[00:19:08]Literally going with the vibes. And it's crazy cuz I was sitting inside there with a bunch of uh Arab people and I didn't feel uncomfortable at all. I actually just enjoyed it and we were just talking about uh cool things off camera. They're all going to the same graduation party.

[00:19:21]Where Where are these all going? Oh, graduation party? Yeah. Oh, nice. To one of our cousins, but it's in Al Ahsa.

[00:19:26]That would have been crazy if I went. I should have brought my thobe and my gal and my shmagh.

[00:19:31]Like me and my cousin got this place, so like whenever we want to meet up or hang out or whatever, like this is our spot.

[00:19:38]Here's where we watch our matches.

[00:19:40]>> But I was say I was saying it to the guy like I didn't want to record too much cuz I like talking off camera also, but uh even on camera like what what is that? Like Like explain that to people like you just hang out and watch games like We watch games, we watch movies, we just like sit and talk and have chai.

[00:19:56]>> We drink tea, we drink coffee, we joke around, we play cards.

[00:20:01]This is like our hangout spot.

[00:20:02]>> Yeah, literally. Yeah.

[00:20:06]How What's the degrees now actually?

[00:20:07]Here is actually very nice area.

[00:20:09]This is the thing about this city. Because it's an agricultural city, Yeah. the presence of a lot of trees, open spaces gives the place the cool that it needs.

[00:20:21]>> And they have the the spray coming out, which is nice.

[00:20:25]So by the looks of it this place is literally like a circle. Would you say a circle? Yeah, and then there's kind of coffee shops I haven't explored it to be honest before.

[00:20:33]>> A lot of coffee shops. But it's literally a lot of coffee shops, a lot of restaurants, >> Yeah. a lot of open spaces, a lot of greens. Yeah.

[00:20:41]Uh they have multiple uh activities that come here.

[00:20:45]>> Sometimes I'm wondering like how do these make money? Like I mean is this coffee shop after coffee shop? Which one do you choose? That's the Bro, it gets it gets to a point where sometimes people come here.

[00:20:57]Especially if there's an event here or something, you wouldn't find a place to sit. No, no, I can imagine. I can imagine.

[00:21:02]>> Yeah.

[00:21:02]So that's how like I I I wouldn't think that a lot of people would open a [ __ ] ton of cafes next to each other because when you think about it, why would they open three, four cafes next to each other when you can just go to one of them.

[00:21:15]>> True. But the thing even in in we were just talking about it like in Ireland, you don't have specialty cafes like this. You just have Starbucks and you have I I think I went to one. It was in um But it's Donnybrook or somewhere out that side, no? Like hold on. D'Olier >> was it was uh in Mercer Street in in Dublin. I don't even know the name of that street, you know what I mean? Uh In Mercer Street, there was one specialty but it looked like it was family owned. It's small and cozy and and the people that work there are the owners. Okay. But I've only experienced that once, but you're you're right. Like the majority of the places are like Starbucks or Insomnia or Cafe Nero or This is nice though.

[00:21:55]This is very nice.

[00:21:59]So it's basically uh a mix of like coffee places, tea places, pastry places.

[00:22:08]>> Food, yeah, everything.

[00:22:09]>> Food.

[00:22:10]A lot of people when they come here, they just just chill in coffee shops.

[00:22:12]That's That's what they do. It's That's the culture.

[00:22:15]That's what That's what they do. They just come here.

[00:22:17]>> true. That is the culture. That's what people do. Like people would go out.

[00:22:22]The intention is to like like in Ireland when you compare it because I've been there and I know. If you want to meet a friend, where would you meet them?

[00:22:31]Like you want to hang out. Yeah, you meet them in their house or probably at the pub. To be honest.

[00:22:35]>> Yeah. So uh houses aren't like I don't think you've ever been to a house where you were refused to go in.

[00:22:45]Like majority of the time people would go >> South Dublin? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[00:22:48]>> Majority of the people would welcome you.

[00:22:50]But at the same time you as a guest wouldn't be as comfortable as if you were out and about with your friends in whatever place that you want to go and it's much more open and you can do whatever you want and you don't feel like you're in a way that you're >> [laughter] >> um like forcing yourself into that place.

[00:23:11]>> Yeah. You feel like you overstayed your welcome. You want to leave. So, that's why the majority of the times you find people in these kind of areas.

[00:23:19]>> Yeah, anytime I want to leave like a house in Saudi, they're like just telling me to stay more. Yeah, yeah.

[00:23:25]They would give me one more chai or one more piece of food and and just make you want to stay. We are going to end this vlog now. It is currently 2:23 in the morning. I just checked in. Well, I'm in the apartment that was kindly given to me by Ibrahim or Ibrahim's friend. Shout out to him. What an absolute gent, guys.

[00:23:45]When I say that Saudi hospitality, I know we kind of go on about it all the time, but I mean it. It is crazy. Just check out this apartment that was given to me. We have a nice beautiful apartment. Make sure to stay tuned to day two of Boreeda.