The Saudi King is traveling to Jakarta with a entourage of 1500 people, 500 tons of luggage, & more
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[quote]The King of Saudi Arabia certainly knows how to travel in style.
In the first visit by a Saudi ruler in almost half a century, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud arrived in Indonesia Wednesday for a nine-day tour of the world's most populous Muslim nation.
The King will spend a few days in Jakarta and West Java before heading to the popular tourist island of Bali on the Indonesian leg of a month-long Asia tour that's already taken him to Malaysia and which will also see him going to China, Japan and the Maldives.
And according to media reports, he isn't traveling light.
Adji Gunawan, the president of airport services company PT Jasa Angkasa Semestar, said the King will be traveling with 459 metric tons of luggage, approximately 505 US tons, the Jakarta Post reported.
For anyone struggling to wrap their heads around how that compares to your more traditional -- if slightly meager by comparison -- 40 pound luggage allowance, the average African Elephant reportedly weighs between 2.5 and 7 US tons.
So take your oversized suitcase, and replace it with two hundred of the world's largest land-based animals.
[b]The more unconventional things in his luggage include two Mercedes-Benz S600 and two free-standing electric elevators, according to the Jakarta Post.[/b]
This might seem odd, but it isn't even the first time the lavish leader has traveled with an elevator.
In 2015, the King's installation of an elevator on a beach in France caused an outcry, as locals protested its installation as well as the beach's closure, according to Reuters.
The elevators have reportedly already been delivered -- one arrived in Jakarta on February 21 and the other in Denpasar, Bali on February 22.
According to Indonesian news agency Antara, King Salman is traveling with no less than 1,500 people -- including ten ministers, 800 delegates and 25 princes -- who traveled to Indonesia in 36 different flights over a period of three weeks.
Adji Gunawan from JAS said that he was deploying 572 members of staff to handle the Saudi King's trip.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/asia/saudi-visit-indonesia/index.html?sr=fbCNN030117saudi-visit-indonesia0800AMStoryLink&linkId=34995534[/url]
[url]http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/02/25/459-tons-equipment-brought-along-on-saudi-arabias-kings-visit-to-indonesia.html[/url]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-saudi-king-idUSKCN0Q70T420150802[/url]
Rather disgusting
Seems pretty unnecessary, but if he wants to show off, I guess that's up to him.
Hide your women and children, no one is safe from the impending diplomatic immunity abuses.
The Saud family, the rendition of decadence
so this is what they meant regarding him bringing freestanding elevators, he installed this just to visit this beach straight from the road on a trip to france
[img]http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/secondary/King-Salman-s-lift-326514.jpg[/img]
man, just
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the other 'elevator' is a golden escalator specifically to lower him from his plane, wow
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I can't complain 100% because he's at least spending the money on shit instead of letting all of it stack up in a bank indefinitely
Wouldn't this technically be a good thing considering they are about to funnel a ton of cash into the businesses they utilize during their stay? Unless for some strange reason they get the celebrity effect and everythings free.
interesting way of stimulating an economy
[QUOTE=zin908;51895488]Wouldn't this technically be a good thing considering they are about to funnel a ton of cash into the businesses they utilize during their stay? Unless for some strange reason they get the celebrity effect and everythings free.[/QUOTE]
probably staying in the Trump international
Disgusting really. These people live the most extravagant lives in the world and they do so on the back of slavery and various other human rights abuses.
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I can't complain 100% because he's at least spending the money on shit instead of letting all of it stack up in a bank indefinitely[/QUOTE]
you absolutely can complain 100% about this extravagant and wasteful use of wealth
Its weird considering how this was the exact foundation for Wahhabism in the first place: Muslims, specifically those in power, were becoming increasingly decadent and foolish in regards to their money
I guess the upside is this extravagance makes them poorer.
Imagine all the positive change in the world that wealth could be put towards to
Oh wait, that'd be a direct conflict with his money flow
Absurd, reads something straight out of ancient times, the king traveling with an army of servants at his disposal.
abhorrent as this is, gotta say, I envy the guy
[QUOTE=download;51895733]I guess the upside is this extravagance makes them poorer.[/QUOTE]
A small dent in a huge boulder though.
What are the chances his caravan gets mugged
[QUOTE=Claxx;51899522]What are the chances his caravan gets mugged[/QUOTE]
Considering the size of his entourage, not very high.
Can't help but feel he's overcompensating for [I]something[/I], though.
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