Ain Al Haqel

Ain Al Haqel is a natural mineral spring and coastal natural water site near Haql in the Tabuk Region of northwestern Saudi Arabia, on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba — the narrow finger of the Red Sea separating Saudi Arabia and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — where oligomineral spring waters emerge in the arid desert landscape of one of the most geologically dynamic coastal zones in the Middle East, sitting directly on the tectonic rift that is actively widening the Red Sea into a new ocean. The Gulf of Aqaba coastline near Haql is also celebrated for some of the world's finest coral reef diving, where extraordinary marine biodiversity thrives in some of Earth's clearest warm water above the underwater extension of the same rift system that produces the coastal spring activity. The location near the border junction of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt — visible from the Haql shoreline on clear days — places the springs in one of the most geopolitically and historically layered landscapes in the world, adjacent to the ancient Nabataean trade routes and the biblical landscape of the Sinai and Hejaz.