Thursday, April 9, 2009

A drive up Jebel Hafeet.......

Yestuerday we decided to take a drive to Al Ain for a look around, we stopped at the Palace museum and then on to the Hili gardens and then to watch the sunset we drove to the top of Jebel Hafeet which is the highest point in the UAE.


Jebel Hafeet abruptly rises out of the desert and is totally dominating, it is a 9 km drive to the top. At 1,180m high it is very inpressive but I for the first time in many years found my fear of hights kick in with vengance and spent the drive up with white nuckle fever looking directly at the dashboard till we reached the top where I got out of the car in a flash and made a huge sigh of relief. So there are no pics of the journey up only pics from the viewing spot at the top.






Kalin was official Photographer...........









The following photo is my fav with the two driggers looking so precariously placed,

small and insignificant to the mountain that they are purched on.



And last of all the moon rising over Oman just as we were heading down.


The trip down was much better than the one up!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day, HUGZ

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kalin has done a fantastic job with all the great pic's Bin xxx I will join you in the shaking department when faced with heights. But I so am going to climb the Harbour Bridge ONE DAY!!! xx "Hoppy Easter" do camels get Hoppy??? xxx Good luck to the little one's on their camel trek for eggs mmmmmmm!!