Saudi Arabia is the world’s most difficult country to visit for a non-Muslim as it does not issue tourist visas. Only Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca are allowed to enter. A few years ago, the government issued tourist visas for a short time before doing putting an end to it and I was able to obtain one. This rare opportunity to visit a country that regularly makes the headlines allowed me to discover over the course of two weeks a culture preserved in a highly conservative society.