el-suk

Updated: May 21, 2025

I had ordered the caravan to march upon the Tuwayl el-Suk; but, after one hour and fifteen minutes, we found the tents pitched some three miles short of it, on a bleak and ugly wave of the Waghir.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

The Tuwayl el-Suk is nothing but an open and windy flat, where the Hajj-caravan used to camp an adjoining ridge, the Hamra el-Tuwayl, shows spalled quartz, Wasm and memorial stones. The principal formation here is the mauve-purple conglomerate before described. After riding nine miles we came unexpectedly upon a large and curious ruin, backed by the broad Wady Damah gleaming white in the sun.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2