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After wrestling with GPS software and Google Earth I finally managed to get a digitised route from Google Earth into Garmin MapSource and the GPS using a third party tool and much elbow grease. It was worth the effort as the GPS confidently bleeped and tweeted the Prado to Wadi Daiqah in the mountains southwest of Quryyat.
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The wadi is one of the few perennial channels in Oman and the area of Al Mazara is a small community built around lush vegetation nestled in trapped pockets of fertile soil. We strolled in cool water with air temperatures in the low-40s and ridiculous humidity. Ladies scuttled for cover as we approached.
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Men utilised the wadi crossing as a car wash. Teenage boys frolicked in green rock pools. A small boy carelessly lost his bucket in the fast-flowing waters. Two Europeans melted. Cicadas droned incessantly and Kingfishers paused for breath with beaks open.
It is a shame that most of this area upstream from Mazara will be underwater by 2009 as work on a 390m dam with a height of 75m has already begun. Perhaps we got there just in time.
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