The same with the “Bat Tombs” outside of Ibri… Of course for the sake of tourism, this site is CLAIMED to be “the ancient city of Ubar” but there is a lot of debate out there about whether it is or not. One might automatically assume that that would mean it would be impressive, but one would be wrong. This location is recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site. No thanks, ha!ha! I’m not THAT hungry… Seems that the black paint can is lost as well! This is the unimpressive entrance to this…unimpressive site. ![]() Oh, I almost forgot to mention the restaurant. There couldn’t have been more than 10 villas there in total as well as a small mosque and a tiny convenience store. What you can’t see from this picture is just how bumpy the road was! In the classic storybook, “ 1001 Arabian Nights“, “ Anyone who tries to find the road to Ubar will go crazy.” Well, I seemed to be losing my mind from the car vibrations and halfway there I started doubting if I was even on the right road! The shaking of the car was so bad in some spots that I had to slow down to 20 kms/hour to prevent the rental car from falling apart! (Good thing I left my car in Muscat on this journey, haha!! □ ) A few villas have been built since the discovery of this site in 1992. ![]() ![]() This was what the road was like to “the lost city of Ubar”. I had no intention of visiting the site of the supposed “rediscovered lost city of Ubar” during my trip to Salalah in July but memories of lost treasure being discovered in different movies on the big screen won out as I noticed this sign on the Salalah-Muscat road: I noticed that the road here to Shisr (or Shasar) was reported to be only 70 kms so I decided that it might be well worth arriving in Muscat a few hours later than planned in order to see an ancient city shrouded in mystery. As a HUGE fan of the Indiana Jones films (at least “ Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade“), myths or legends of “a lost city” are definitely something which are sure to grab my attention.
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