OMAN
RUB AL KHALI DESERT AND THE LOST CITY OF UBAR – Salalah
Duration
13.00 – 18.00Languages
English speaking driver/guidePeople Size
Min: 2paxFood
No MealAvailable Days
Daily
“POSSIBLE EVERY DAY on private basis, English speaking driver/guide”
Tour Details
Road to the site of Wadi Dawkah, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as "land of incense" like Kor Ruri and the city of Ubar. There, over almost 5 hectares, frankincense trees, the "boswelia Sacra" flourish in the draining basin of a wadi on the edge of the desert.
Continuation to “Ubar”, the lost city. This site discovered in 1992, under a 16th century fort, was a vast caravan warehouse, surrounded by a wall, more than 2000 years old, on the incense route which linked Dhofar, the production region to the cities of southern Arabia, Shabwa in Hadramout and Mareb (current Yemen). Today, these particularly isolated and desolate places arouse the imagination. Here stood a prosperous city. Some liken it to the city of Iram, punished by God in the Koran or to the Ubar of Bedouin legends.
Very close, view of the outskirts of the Rub al Khali, the "empty quarter" the largest and most hostile sand desert on the planet which extends over part of Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Time to enjoy the sunset on the dunes.
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