A Sabbath Trip to Wakun Village

We had Stake Conference this weekend but not really the traditional way. We had the adult session on Friday evening and then the regular session Saturday morning. The UAE changing their weekend to 2.5 days really made our religious unity tricky. So, Friday morning we decided to take a stroll up to where the Popcorn Trees(aka Apricot trees) were still blooming.

It was a little bit of a long drive and the road is steep and had about 3 in of "moon dust" on the road and our car began slipping. So, we ended up getting out on this narrow mountain road, helping Matt VERY CAREFULLY turn the car around since there was another car that stopped and parked at the exact same spot and then we left the car and walked up to the village. There was a lovely view from the top when we finally got up the mountain being incredibly dusty.

Can you believe those trees and terraced gardens in the backdrop. Ignore the equipment and signs.

The whole walk was paved and had lovely stairs. This split stair was to all for the falaj water to run through it.

There were a couple of villages on this mountain. 

Some un-named members of our group were struggling to feel enthusiastic while walking first up a mountain, and then up  a million stairs. Brigham knows exactly how many but I can't remember.

a pool fed by the falaj was very green but also set in a lovely way.

Lion of the Lord.

This is maybe not the best angle for seeing the projile of the lion but it's pretty uncanny how much it does in deed resemble a lion.

Matt and Samuel wanted to continue on. There was an extension of a path beyond the paved staircase.

I bet you could take some amazing pics here with all the natural stone and wood railings and stairs.

We still had to walk down in the moon dust with cars shooting up the mountain hoping their car can make it. Almost all of us really enjoyed the excursion. It definitely was a little different than I planned and took some patience and attention but we would go back-or most of us would.