Having said that we met with Mr. Mohammed Al Ma’arik, a Saudi gentleman in his 50’s from Buraidah. He has been tracing the tracks of Charles Auguste Huber, a French orientalist and explorer who made two trips to Arabian Peninsula crossing The Big Nufud in one of the occasions in May! Huber’s first trip was in 1879 where he resides in Ha’il for six months then continued his wandering in the desert of Ha’il and Tabuk making friends on his way and wrote a diary full of useful information that consists of even barometric readings of the weather at that time!
Our explorer and guide of this itinerary Mr. Al Ma’arik is actually fond of Huber’s personality as well as methodology of noting each and everything he experienced and noticed while travelling in the northern vast desert of Saudi Arabia!