{"id":48189,"date":"2019-01-02T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/sharqiyah\/en\/competitions\/more-than-half-a-million-people-visited-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:08:21","slug":"more-than-half-a-million-people-visited-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dammam\/en\/feature\/more-than-half-a-million-people-visited-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half A Million People Visited Bahrain This Week And The Twitter Reaction To It Is Kinda Hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the last five days, more than half a million Saudi residents drove over the King Fahad Causeway to Bahrain and it has resulted in a bit of a humorous sticky situation.<\/p>\n
Bahrain, the neighboring Eastern island, a mere 45-minute drive from Khobar has been a favorite weekend getaway for a lot of Saudis for years now.<\/p>\n
And of course, since the same week of New Year’s Eve fell upon the same week that Saudi schools announced an extended holiday- we kinda saw this overcrowding coming.<\/p>\n
So this was quite a bit to take on.<\/p>\n
Reports even say that Bahrain received more Saudi visitors through the bridge in the last five days than EVER.<\/p>\n