The king has a palace in Jeddah and his fountain is a local landmark. He turns it on just before sunset. The fountain is opposite one of the ritziest streets in Jeddah, the Corniche. I took this picture from a park that runs along the Corniche. It was filled with people waiting for the fountain to turn on. A lot of families where there grilling dinner (it smelled great), fishing and playing in the park. There were a few guys selling roasted corn out of a whell barrow. There are hot coals in the barrow and they roast the corn on top of the coals. It seemed very popular. The buildings along the Corniche are spectacular, I'll get some good pictures of them another day. Sometimes it's hard to see just how spectacular they are because of all the construction that's going on in the city. Everywhere you look whole blocks have been demolished and new buildings are going up. There are connstruction barriers everywhere. When things are finally finished Jeddah will be a city people can really be proud of. The one bad thing, though, is people throw trash everywhere. The streets have a lot of junk in them, there was litter all over the park, and there's all kinds of trash floating in the water. People just casually toss stuff to the ground without giving it a second thought.
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