The Gulf of Oman behind.
The city of Muscat in the middle.
Yours truly in the front!

To get an idea of the scale, check out the folks on the top of the rim…

After Wadi Shab, we headed towards Bimmah Sink Hole. This is a nearly 300 feet hole created not too far from the Gulf (you can see in the picture). In fact, there is a small tunnel that joins the Gulf to this sinkhole and that is where the water comes from.

While the locals would have you believe that a meteorite caused this sink hole, in reality, it was created by a collapse in the limestone thru constant erosion below. (Once again, who knew there are limestone rocks in the desert country of Oman?).

No amount of researching the internet or asking the locals helped me understand the timeframe of the creation of this sinkhole…

Unfortunately, I did not have change of clothes. Else a dip in the cold water would have been the perfect reward for the tricky trek.

… there is a ship (of the desert)

Roger, when are we hitting the roads again?

Some parts of the trek was scary. There were a couple of areas only one person could squeeze thru. One wrong step and it would be a steep fall. There were spots that some folks were too scared to cross backing up the line behind.

Unfortunately, I did not have proper shoes on. And I was afraid of my ankle rolling. If I had known this would be involved, I would have come in shorts and half shirt..

Soon the wide path ended and there was no… well.. path. One had to constantly negotiate stepping over rocks and stones but the one thing that kept anybody from straying was vertical walls of the mountains on either side.

It took about 35 minutes to maneuver thru a lot of rocks and non-existent paths. Those were some impressively sheer walls of mountains on either side.