We set out for the mountains on Thursday, March 12. The plan was to travel to 8,000 feet up. It was truly mountain "climbing." You must check in with the guard post to let them know you are going up and drive a 4 wheel drive vehicle. Some of the grades were extremely steep.
Unbelievably though, there was a full paved highway, complete with passing lanes, with guard rails and cement fences, along with electric lighting all the way up. 
Some of the switchbacks were so tight, you literally would "crawl" around the corners.
At the level we stopped at, amazing things again were found...a pomegranate plantation
built on terraces cut into the mountain sides - the pomegranatesare highly prized from this grower and bring in a lot of cash.
fossils of shells and coral from the ocean - as stated earlier in the blog, the mountains of Oman are unusual because they were formed from a collision of plate tectonics pushing the ocean floor up to form mountains, instead of being shoved deeper in the ocean. Imagine seeing ocean fossils 8,000 feet up.
I, Carol, was pretty much a chicken and preferred view the mountain sites from inside the car. The thought of looking over the edge was a little much for me...
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