
The wild Iris of Tumayr
'The Iris takes its name from the Greek word for rainbow; it was also the name for a beautiful young Greek goddess who legend explains rode around on rainbows' On a wet and breezy Friday in February, a few of us weekend adventure seekers took off to see the wild Iris of Tumayr. Tumayr is a district north of Riyadh about one and a half hours along Route 65. When we turned off the main road at Junction 11, we bump along a dirt road till we reached the Iris Fields. For many, th