Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hosts Tour of Yanbu Flower Festival Park

PHOTO: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)-Makkah Branch hosted a guided tour of Yanbu’s Flower Festival Park for the diplomatic community on 21 March 2019.

MOFA-Makkah Branch Director General Jamal Balkhoyor welcomed the diplomatic corps who joined the tour including Consul General Edgar Badajos and his counterparts from Indonesia, Korea, and Japan, and representatives of other consular organizations in Jeddah.

Lead curators of the festival gave a refreshing review of the park through their lens of botanical education and in the care of the animals that were housed in the festival’s grounds. The park hosts an aquatic recycling aquarium, a greenhouse strawberry vegetation tent, an aviary, and an enclosed shelter for various breeds of butterflies.

Yanbu, a major Red Sea port in Al Madinah, hosts the flower festival annually organized by the Royal Commission of Landscaping and Irrigation Department in the city. (Jeddah PCG photos)