Couchsurfing in Saudi Arabia

As soon as Saudi Arabia allowed the first tourists to enter, bestselling author on couchsurfing Stephan Orth immediately packed his rucksack. He set off from couch to couch to discover the entire kingdom, getting an insight into its closed society in a way no Western traveller had before. He became an eyewitness to radical change, saw women behind the wheel, and danced with a crowd of ten thousand at a desert party. But on the flip side of this gilded world, one must also remember the threat of drastic punishments, and at the border with Yemen, the exploding bombs are impossible to ignore.