http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Saudi Arabia: More than a million and a half of pilgrims arrived to perform the Hajj this year [The Source: Hadramoutinfo/Saba.net - 19/October/2012] Saudi Arabia said that the number of pilgrims coming from abroad for this year amounted million 534 thousand 606 pilgrims until the end of the day Thursday. The General-Director of Passports in the Kingdom Salem bin Mohammed Al-bleehid in a statement to Saudi Press Agency, that the arrival of the pilgrims was as follows : By air 1,414,711 pilgrims, and through land 102,514 pilgrims, however  17,381 pilgrims , came through the sea .