We went to Salam Park, a huge area with beautiful lawns, lakes, palm groves, play and boating equipment, concessions and an amusement park nearby – all in the middle of Riyadh. While the many parks in the DQ have only a select clientele of residents, Salam Park is really for everybody and attracts a large number of locals.

I took a lot of pictures (although I found out when we were leaving that cameras weren’t allowed in the park), but ended up not liking most of them (had to be quite surreptitious so not the best results), plus the new Sony RX100 M3 was really acting up, refusing to focus, and if it did, not well. At the end of the day, it just stopped focusing altogether.

I’m making a small gallery for the park images. They aren’t my favorites, but we spent several hours walking around there, and it’s something other than shopping and DQ parks ;-).

Another picture from the park posted earlier today, sort of jumping the gun, but I was quite excited to have photographed a bird (!), and it was just so unusual looking: