Beehive Tombs Adventure

 



Beehive Tombs. 5000yrs old. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Fascinating. We checked into our Omani motel-(see post titled "Balcony Walk at Jebel Sham" for that story) and we put our destination in Google Maps and headed to see this ancient relic before it got too dark. Thankfully curfew had just been changed to 10pm so we had time on our side, just needed light. Google, unbeknownst to us at the time, took us through a "shortcut" over a mountain. I don't fear too many things, I don't think I do at least, but a definite phobia. There are, it seems, 13 official phobias related to cars but none of them quite captures mine: the fear of a car breaking down. I am pretty terrified to drive through mountains. It's not falling off the mountain which seems a little more logical maybe, but I'm afraid of the car breaking down from the stress. This particular drive was pretty terrifying to me, but that was magnified by the very idea that we would have to come back through in the dark. I did what I could to keep it to myself but Sennia was also afraid of this steep dirt inclines and tight turns, sheer cliffs etc. After about an hour of this, we suddenly came out to a main road. What???? Google had "saved" us 15 minutes by sending us crawling up and down a mountain to get us to our destination 30 minutes later than we could've. I was sooooo relieved we could go back on a highway. 





The stress and relief made seeing the tombs just that much more fun. Though much of the structure was fallen, they were distinctly beehive shaped, lining the ridge of a mountain near a small village. 








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