One of the many favorites of this trip was hiking down into the 2nd largest sinkhole in the world. I can't even imagine what it was like when this thing fell in! It's Incredibly deep.So you get out of your car and walk down a path and some stairs and you come to this viewing platform with a sign warning you to NOT go any further for your own safety. Well, if the fact that both Matt and Elise are standing up on that wall while other Dad's are telling their kids they may NOT get up on the wall tells you anything, you probably know that we hiked down into the sinkhole.
On the way to the Baobab Forest from the Sinkhole we saw lots of camels of course, but we also had lunch at a little place in Tawi Ateer.
We tried to go see Tarq Cave but discovered it was below us and we had no indication of how to get to it and we were hungry so off to Tawi Ateer hoping for food which we found. While we were figuring all that out Mo discovered another chameleon. They are truly fascinating.The Baobab forest was enchanting and breathtaking. They are being killed by some beetle sadly and because there are so few of them they may not be able to survive in Oman much longer. I hope an entomologist, maybe my son, can figure out how to save them.Maybe he can save the Boababs in Oman someday if they can hold out that long.Can you spot the child emerging from the tree. Druids taking form.Last stop of the night was Khor Rori, an ancient city ruins on an ancient port that they suspect was used to regulate the Frankincense market. Kids played hide and seek and we watched the sun go down over the ocean.Some of the ancient stones had engravings of a really old form of Arabic.
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