The annual Hajj pilgrimage season, the city of Mina Saud of Saudi awash in whiteness of the hut.
It's white color of temporary huts of pilgrims from many countries around the world, this is a highlight of the tour Arabian Saud.
Mina is a small city located inside a low valley in Makkh province, west of Saudi Arabia Saud, from the holy city of Mecca about 8 km to the east.
Inside the 20 km2 wide valley is the white tent covering an open space.
When standing at a distance, one could see the huts arranged in neat rows connected together. That's huts were erected for the pilgrims to stay overnight during the 5-day hajj pilgrimage season arrives. For the remaining period of the year, the city became deserted Mina.
There are more than 100,000 huts installed air conditioning by government in the entire city of Mina, providing temporary accommodation for 3 million pilgrims from many countries around the world.
The height and width of these huts are 8 m, built with Teflon fiberglass, high resistance to fire.
When the Hajj pilgrimage season is over, the huts will be dismantled, visitors packed everything and bring them home.
In the 1990s, the government of Saudi Arabia set up cotton huts for pilgrims to reduce the burden of carrying to the holy land. But major fires swept through the city in 1997, killing nearly 350 people. So, today the work of the permanent fire protection as well as safety equipment life is built on a modern city.
Besides the hut is separated into several camps, each hut possess outer wall and connect to other camps in the narrow streets. Each camp is equipped with a kitchen, a bathroom and a worshiping
washing area.
Each tent are color coded by country and by type of order that all pilgrims are obliged to wear badges with the colors and their numbers as the hut was encrypted, to avoid missing cases.
In the past two years, the city has undergone a major shift because the government invested billions of Riyal (monetary unit of several Middle Eastern countries) in many infrastructure projects to ease the difficult ritual difficult and physically demanding of the participants in the annual pilgrimage.
A network of comprehensive fire prevention, including heat-sensitive sprinklers associated with an alarm system has been done to prevent the repeated tragedy in 1997.