The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has created a virtual 3D platform that allows Muslims worldwide to visit Madina’s Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the second holiest mosque in the world.

Saudia is offering a new luggage service for its hajj passengers – collecting luggage from their hotel or other accommodation in Makkah and Madinah 24 hours before departure, and delivering it to the correct airport baggage centre – before they arrive.

Buses will no longer be used for transporting pilgrims to and fro Makkah and Madinah when the Haramain Highspeed Railway commences operation by December next year.

Two million Muslims from around the world arrived in the Mina valley outside the holy city of Makkah.