Drive about 45 minutes into the desert south of Manama, and the Raffles Al Areen Palace Bahrain appears like a mirage. The resort’s bone-white watchtowers rise out from gardens ringed by date palms and ancient olive trees, behind which a sprawling village of courtyard villas unfurls into a veritable oasis in southern Bahrain’s sparsely vegetated landscape.
Inside Raffles Al Areen Palace Bahrain
(Image credit: Courtesy of Raffles Al Areen Palace Bahrain)