Saudi Arabia has yet another trick up its sleeve.<\/p>\n
After the $500 billion horizontal skyscraper<\/a>, they\u2019re now working on an upside-down skyscraper.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Footage shows $1 Trillion construction of \u2018The Line\u2019 underway in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s an upside -own skyscraper, so to speak, because its peak coincides with the peak of a 450-meter-tall mountain.<\/p>\n This means you enter the skyscraper from the top, and then it extends towards the bottom, rather than towards the top.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called the Aquellum, and it\u2019s part of NEOM<\/a> \u2013 the same $1 trillion project that also includes the aforementioned horizontal \u2018skyscraper\u2019 \/ city, the Line.<\/p>\n <\/a>NEOM<\/p>\n Aquellum is home to 5-star hotels, beautiful gardens and futuristic-looking decor, among other things, but it doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n It also has another section dedicated to first-class apartments for visitors, leisure spaces, and shops of all kinds.<\/p>\n According to NEOM, the experience starts at the top of the upside-down skyscraper with the world\u2019s first floating marina.<\/p>\n Moving onwards, or rather downwards, a specially designed vessel will take you through a concealed underground canal.<\/p>\n <\/a>NEOM<\/a>NEOM<\/a>NEOM<\/p>\n It looks spectacular, like something out of a Tomb Raider video game.<\/p>\n Then again, this is just one of Saudi Arabia\u2019s many ambitious and expensive projects.<\/p>\n In addition to NEOM, they\u2019re also working on an $8 billion turtle-shaped yacht<\/a>.<\/p>\n To be fair, we\u2019re no longer surprised when it comes to Saudi Arabia\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n They\u2019re working hard to put their name on the map \u2013 and it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n In the last three years, Saudi Arabia\u2019s tourism has quadrupled.<\/p>\n Saudi<\/a> went from 4.14 million visitors in 2020, to about 30 million in 2023.<\/p>\n And in first seven months of 2023, it was the second most visited<\/a> nation in the world.<\/p>\n These figures weren\u2019t enough to get Saudi Arabia in the top 10 list of most visited countries in 2023, but it feels like it\u2019s just a matter of time before that changes.<\/p>\n The post Saudi Crown Prince developing an upside-down skyscraper built into a 450-meter-tall mountain<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saudi Arabia has yet another trick up its sleeve. After the $500 billion horizontal skyscraper, they\u2019re now working on an upside-down skyscraper. READ MORE: Footage shows $1 Trillion construction of \u2018The Line\u2019 underway in Saudi Arabia It\u2019s an upside -own skyscraper, so to speak, because its peak coincides with the peak of a 450-meter-tall mountain. …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}