The Rub‘ al Khali · United Arab Emirates · Oman
The Empty Quarter
الربع الخالي
A private encampment raised in the heart of the world’s great sand sea, struck the moment you leave. No road leads to it. No one else will ever know it stood.
The Journey
There is a quiet in the Rub‘ al Khali that exists almost nowhere else — a silence with weight to it, older than language. We take you to its centre, far beyond the last track, to a camp built for your family and no one else.
You arrive by helicopter as the heat breaks. Tents of waxed linen and Bukhara rugs; a private chef who trained in the kitchens of three continents; a falconer at first light and an astronomer once the sun is gone. When you leave, the camp leaves with you. The desert closes over the place as though it had never been.
Signature Moments
Three the others
cannot arrange.
A handful of moments unique to this commission. Everything around them — the residences, the table, the hours — is composed to match.
- 01
A camp without coordinates
Raised by a team of forty the day before you arrive, in a location chosen for the angle of the dunes at dusk. Struck the hour you depart.
- 02
The hour of Suhail
An astronomer maps the Arabian sky as the Bedouin read it — by the star that named this house — over cardamom coffee and a fire of ghaf wood.
- 03
Falconry at the first light
A morning flown with a master falconer of Liwa, his birds the descendants of a line kept for two hundred years.
The Particulars
Composed to your
measure, not ours.
The figures below are a guide to one shape this journey can take. Your commission is priced privately, against what you ask of it.
- Duration
- Five nights
- Party
- Up to eight, by private commission
- Arrival
- Private helicopter from Dubai
- Residence
- A bespoke mobile encampment
- From
- USD 165,000
By Introduction
Begin a conversation.
There is no brochure to request and nothing to book — only the start of a journey made entirely for you. Tell us a little, and we will take it from there.
Begin a conversationCommissions from USD 100,000 · In the strictest confidence