Got a call in the morning asking if I wanted to go to Hatta Pools, leaving in 15 minutes. First I said no, then changed my mind and off we go!! The town of Hatta is in the Hajjar Mountains, just over the border from UAE into Oman. It's one of the highest elevations on the Arabian Pennisula and has water year round. We drove for a few hours seeing new, but similar countryside which I still enjoy. We laughed as we played our ipods on speakers that it was funny to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd as our background music, when the landscape does not match!
We passed thru an area that seemed like a tourist area filled with campers and all terrain vehicles playing wildly in the dunes-we must return for fun there! After finding the tiny town of Hatta, winding thru unmarked streets and following the strangest of directions we finally found "where the pavement ends." There we turned onto a well worn dirt road and slowly made our way to the next land mark. With each turn the road got more rugged. Topping a hill we broke out into the most beautiful golden orange vista of rugged mountains ringing a deep valley. After stopping to take video we proceeded to the bottom of the valley and hiked the rest of the way down to the Hatta Pools.
The water has carved out rock (that looks like concrete) and created a miniature grand canyon.
There were quite a few other people there, including some young Arab men in their dishdashes and their many four-wheel drive vehicles. They were having a great time trying to get up and over the rugged terrain, yelling encouragement and challenges to each other (even in a foreign language you still understand).
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