Travel Opportunities

Exciting Travel Destinations Within Easy Reach

Jeddah is within easy driving distance of the KAUST campus, and is Saudi Arabia’s most cosmopolitan and international city, with an ancient and fascinating history. It is a major seaport and a crossroads for pilgrims coming to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

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• Travel Opportunities

• Amsterdam
  6 hours
• Bangkok
  7 hours
• Cairo
  2 hours
• Cape Town
  8 hours
• Dubai
  2 hours
• Hong Kong
  9 hours
• Istanbul
  3 hours
• Jordan
  2 hours
• London
  6 hours
• Marrakesh
  4 hours
• New Delhi
  5 hours
• Oman
  2 hours
• Paris
  6 hours
• Rome
  4 hours

For the outdoor enthusiast, the coastline of the Red Sea is full of reefs, beaches, creeks and valleys just waiting to be explored.

From Jeddah's international airport, the opportunities to travel and tour exciting cultures and parts of the world are diverse and plentiful. Given the University’s paid vacation allowance and holidays, KAUST employees and their families will have no shortage of interesting destinations to choose from in Europe, Africa and the Far East.