Edge of Oman

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Driving from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain, you enter into Oman through the shared border town of Buraimi. A tall, curled, barbed wire fence lets you know you are approaching the border line...well the first exit post. However a further half hour plus drive out of Buraimi and into the mountians, finds the desolate location of the Oman border post.

The approach is from the flat desert sands.. the odd crumbled down shop or residence along the way... locals squatting by the road hitching rides...trucks & utes with camels and goats , not an unusual sight. So it is unusual that all of a sudden you come across the Oman border buildings, striking as the only buildings amongst this vast desert landscape....Imposing, it feels like you are in some movie...surreal... border personnel, lines of trafic awaiting their passport stamps..a daily ritual for some.... more unusual for us.

It is always hot, dry, and vast.... Space, long views, flat lands suddenly broken by a range of rocky desolate mountains that resemble a quarry.... and on & on it goes, the road winding through this rocky dry landscape. Quiet and unassuming, but spectacular...

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