A WEEKEND IN DIRAB

Ex-Lucent families once again found a way to spend the weekend in a most lovely way - at Dirab - in particular at the Dirab Polo and Golf Club Resort. The resort is owned and developed by the Ibrahim Abunayyan Sons Company at Dirab, which is about 60 kilometers south west of Riyadh city and nestled in the Tawfiq Valley. The resort is an adjunct of the Dirab Golf Course, "the only grassed 18-holes par 73 championship golf course in Riyadh."

I hope I can compare it to the golfing communities in Arizona (USA) but for our purposes, the Polo and Golf Resort already addressed our needs.

Photos above show the villas in the Resort, as well as the swimming pool behind the main villa which we occupied. This villa has seven bedrooms and an almost equal number of toilets/bathrooms. The pool is very picturesque, located as it were at the foot of a mountain range that seemed to fence in the resort. It was lovely in the evening since the resort somehow managed to put up raindrop lighting at strategic locations around the villa and the pool.

The photographers among us, most notably, Randy, Engel and Jun had a swell time taking our photographs. I hope I can post them next time.