If the architect of the StarCraft videogame set up shop on the planet of Arrakis, then you’d get Leyja, NEOM’s newly announced sustainable tourism destination.
Like most of NEOM’s projects it is stunning to look at, and hard to believe this is going to be a real thing, but as we’ve learned, more fool anyone to bet against NEOM’s ambition.
Called Leyja, the new resort begins along the Gulf of Aqaba coast, and sweeps inland through a desert valley enveloped by 400-meter-high mountains that will make you curious if Frank Herbert’s Sandworms were based on a real thing (keep your eyes peeled, hopefully you don’t actually come across any).
This new attraction is all apart of the Kingdom’s ambitions to become a uniquely sustainable tourist destination under Saudi Vision 2030, as it will utilise innovative ecological design and architectural techniques to preserve 95% of its area for nature.
Embedded within this futuristic oasis are three environmentally sustainable hotels, providing an ocean of rooms and mountaineering activities which will definitely keep your dad occupied as the rest of the family melts into the unbelievable structures surrounding them.
An official opening date is yet to be confirmed, but we’re jealous of whoever gets their first.
