Oman hits the spot.

It was a good sleep.

After a long drive and a quick dinner we had gone to bed fairly early. Luckily, the spot where we chose to camp had the added bonus of shade from the wadi cliff face until late in the morning. This meant that we weren’t woken up by hot tents as soon as the sun came up. The water in the wadi was flowing and very fresh, so it was perfect for a morning dip. Morning coffee and breakfast were casually prepared and we settled in for a nice long day of doing a lot of not much. Some tinkering with the cars, reading a book, broken up by regular swims and coffee top ups. The solar panels were making the most of the sun and we had both awnings out to create a nice big shady patch. Life was good.

You’re never really alone……

Just after midday we heard the far off crunching of tyres on rocks. An old Patrol slowly came into view and parked up not far from us, a small family setting up for lunch and a swim. Thankfully, they weren’t noisy and kept to themselves. We had a quick chat with them as they passed to go for a hike further down the wadi. The owner of the car was French and has been in Oman for the last 20 years, this spot being one of his favourites. 

They left after a few hours and we had the place to ourselves once again.

Later that evening we drove back down to the main road to meet up with some friends who were coming up from Abu Dhabi. It was dark by the time they got to us so they didn’t get to see the beauty of the Wadi as we led them back to camp.

But they got a pretty nice place to wake up in.

As had happened the day before, while we were making the most of a quiet wadi to ourselves, another car ventured up the wadi to our spot around late morning.

It didn’t get very far though. With some driver error, the small pickup got stuck in a shallow water crossing. They can be deceptive as although the water is shallow, the stones underneath are very soft. The group of men tried to push the car out but they weren’t thinking about it properly and only made it worse. In the end, one of our group went to go and give them a snatch and it was out pretty quickly.

After that, we finished off packing and headed off to our next spot.