Holy Trip With Railmaster

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Privateday7

·Apr 18, 2013

I just returned from pilgrimage to holy cities of moslem : Madina and Mecca in Kingdom of Saudia Arabia. This time I brought my Railmaster with me. Here are few pictures of the rail master during the trip. They were taken by a simple point & shoot camera so the quality is not great. Hope you enjoy them.

The Railmaster in Jakarta airport

The Railmaster in Quba mosque in Madina

The Railmaster in dates plantation

The Railmaster in Uhud hill a battle front

The Railmaster in Prophet mosque

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 18, 2013

The Railmaster in Prophet mosque in Madina

mechanical umbrellas in Prophet Mosque yard bring nice shadow during hot sunny day, folded during the night

Plaza in front of Prophet mosque, recognize the clock?

The Double Claw Constellation clock. About 60 cm diameter. But this is not the biggest Constellation yet...

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 18, 2013

Makkah, the grand mosque

Hilton hotel Mekkah, next to Grand Mosque. Again recognize the clock?

At about 10 meter diameter, probably the biggest Constellation in the world.

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 18, 2013

But it pale compare to Abraj Al Bait, the next adjacent building complex. Housing a 20 storey mall, 8 (yes eight) hotels with more than 2,000 rooms, a convention center, it is the second tallest building in the world at 601 meter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait

The railmaster and Abraj al Bait

The clock, the biggest in the world at 46m diamater sit at 400 m, is an engineering marvel. Build by Straintec Swiss (http://www.straintec.ch/projects#/page-25/) it weight 21 ton and visible from 25 km. It has electromechanical movement. Just imagine if it had a pure mechanical movement.....

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 18, 2013

Jeddah, port city........the railmaster at Red Sea 'floating' mosque.

The Railmaster at Jeddah airport. Note the traditional tent-like design for the airport roof.

 

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AuBuyer

·Apr 18, 2013

Nice watch...but beautiful photos!

Thanks for sharing!

 

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CanberraOmega

·Apr 19, 2013

Congratulations on making the haj

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 19, 2013

CanberraOmega

Congratulations on making the haj

It was 'small haj' actually. We called it Umra. The real haj only happen a month in a year. This year it will be on October.

 

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CanberraOmega

·Apr 19, 2013

My wife, who spent a year in Malaysia corrected me and told me that this trip doesn't make you a haji!

 

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shaun hk

·Apr 19, 2013

cool, you should keep it up, railmaster visits the great wall of China etc!

 

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Privateday7

·Apr 19, 2013

CanberraOmega

My wife, who spent a year in Malaysia corrected me and told me that this trip doesn't make you a haji!

She is right...... 😀. I had been to my haj on 2002 and 2004. They were spectatular trip, where you and 5 million other people moving together for about one week in 5 spots about 15 km area. Heavy, but spectatular.