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Saudi Arabia is known to the world as the center of Islam and one of the very few countries in the world to have maintained Islamic law the sharia. According to the U.S department of state (2010) Saudi Arabia remained as an absolute monarchy until 1992, at which time the Saud royal family introduced the country’s first constitution based on the sharia. With an area of about 865,000 square miles, Saudi Arabia is roughly one-third the size of the continental United States, and the same size as all of Western Europe. It was 1 year before I got to know I was going to Saudi Arabia. I was really excited to go, because my cousin Aqeel and Harun where going to go as well so it was good cause I would have had company. We phoned my uncle that I was going he booked the tickets. We go to the airport, it was about 05:30 and we had to get off the airplane. We had three hours till we got to Madinah. We all were praying from the plane to Madinah. We were about to land the plane was landing and the noise was like a cat scrapping his claws against the floor it gave me the shivers. We got off the plain we were at Madinah airport we had to get the coach to get to Madinah. We got the coach and the journey was about twenty minutes. We go to Madinah hotel and freshened up had a shower and was now ready to enter the holy mosque. I couldn’t wait to see the mosque at 1st site, it is said that if you make a prayer when you see the mosque at first site your prayer comes true, it was beautiful. There aren’t words to explain the feeling you have when you see the holy mosque from the inside and the house of Allah. I sat in the mosque for approximately 4 hours that day before we went back to our hotels it was a long tiring day, I had the best sleep ever. The next morning, I woke up, I was ready to go to the mosque again and pray. We also done a small pilgrimage which was done by our prophet (PBUH) which was a good experience. The weather there was very hot at times, it would reach nearly 50C but inside the mosque the air conditioning was so good. It felt like I was still in Britain, we also climbed up a mountain the same mountain our prophet Mohammed (pbuh) climbed when he was chased by the non-believers. We mostly prayed in the mosque and made short pilgrimages, I enjoyed it a lot it was a good experience for me we had to days left to leave I was kind of missing home now but I didn’t want to leave either and I was in the holy mosque right next to Allah’s house. There is a black stone in one of the corners of Allah’s house and it is said that whoever kisses the black stone, their sins will be forgiven. I tried my best that day to kiss the black stone and eventually, I did. It is not easy trying to kiss the stone for there as many people there trying to kiss. Many people die during hajj because they try and kiss the black stone and get crushed because there is so many people there, but I was happy though I got to kiss it and was looking forward to going home Now it was our last day at Madinah I took many photos of the place so I could look back one day and say I was there. After the completion of the visit in Saudi Arabia, we returned back and I hugged relatives and friends in joy. We all left the airport quickly so we could get home in time for dinner. I told my mum and dad the whole experience on the way back from the airport. I loved it.