We now started to make our way back across the other side of Salalah where the mountains are lush and green. Such a contrast to what we had just seen. At home we would see herds of cattle roaming the country side, here we saw herds of camels grazing.. so different to my poor camel that spent it’s day sitting out front of Macdonalds in Aqaba.
As we drove up and up the Qara Mountains the views were becoming more and more spectacular. Our little bus struggled to get us up some of those steep inclines , but eventually it got us to what felt like the summit and Nabi Ayoub’s (Job’s) Tomb.
The tomb is just a small building and inside you will find the grave covered with ornate rugs. Now either Job was a big man or he was buried with his camel cause it was the biggest grave site I had ever seen. Inside there were many worshipers praying and I have to say there was a real spiritual feeling as you walked around. Whilst we were there there was a call to prayer in the mosque next door and our driver and guide asked if it is was ok if they spent 20 min in prayer.. Not ones to come between man and his religion we told them it was not a problem. Our driver left the motor running so that when we had made our way back to bus we could sit in air-conditioned comfort.
Still so much to do and so little time to do it in... So once the prayers had finished we followed the mass exodus out of the car park and headed back down the mountains.
We then called into the Ain Gariz springs. This was a lovely cool area where you could see the water running out of the mountains filling up a waterhole that was overflowing . The clear blue water looked so inviting but all we could do was photograph the boys that looked like they were having a great time.
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