Fujairah

Today was a day trip to the mountains of Fujairah

These mountains are hot and barren quite devoid of life. Except for little shanty towns where Afghanis sell their wares. The Afghans are the ones selling the carpets. I didnt want to leave the car to take pictures from the outside. Too hot.

And you come across really small towns which makes you wonder what is it people do there to survive. Kinda like most of the places in oklahoma. Only alot hotter. And dustier.

I did see some really old structures along the way. UAE is a man-made country. Everything here was built within the last 50 years. Not much old stuff here so when you do find something, it's a big deal. Like this old mosque we saw on the way.




Here is a panaromaic shot of the area around the mosque above.


We stopped by the Hilton for lunch.

The place was packed with german tourists. Large buses packed with them. Fujairah has some nice scuba diving around and tourists usually buy packages that take them for desert safaris (driving on the dunes in the evening and settling down to dinner and a belly dancing show), scuba diving (diving in the reefs around Fujairah in the day and settling down in the evening with good eats and a belly dancing show) or just dinner and belly dancing.

Along the way, you would also see these little pockets of trees along the way. Little patches of green in this hot rugged terrain. They mostly grow dates, some mangoes. There used to be lots of strawberry farms along the way, but they slowly started closing down. I didn't see any along the way this time. Not sure what happened.