Where can it be, Awabi? Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Camel Master: I checked up on the location and found to my dismay that the landscape had been degraded to such an extent by the ongoing industrial activities in the area, that a cache does not belong here any longer. I will have to come up with a new puzzle and a new cache in another, more beautiful, location around the Capital Area.

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Hidden : 5/22/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A puzzle cache hidden among the mountains near Al Awabi. The above coordinates are not the correct ones. The final coordinates will be found when solving the puzzle described below.


The mountains along the Batinah coast, just west of the Capital Area, are mostly made of limestone. This is great feedstock for the cement industry and thus, along the edge of the mountains, quite a lot of industry can be found either making cement or using it to make products such as "breeze blocks". This does leave its mark on nature and this cache is hidden among scars in the landscape left by limestone excavation. To find the final cache coordinates you have to solve a puzzle. By clicking on the link below a webpage will be opened with, in the upper window, a detailed satellite picture of GZ from Google Earth. You will have to find the exact same spot in the lower window making sure, specifically, that the level of zoom is exactly the same in both pictures. When you achieve a match the final coordinates will be revealed in a box next to both windows. Good luck!

Solve the puzzle here

The cache consists of a small lock-and-lock box camouflaged in a beige sock. Next to the logbook, there is enough space for a few small items of swag, Geocoins and smallish Travel Bugs. There is an envelope with a bonus prize for the FTF geocacher: an unregistered geocoin. So hurry up and get to this cache first. The cache site requires driving some distance over graded roads. There should be no problem reaching the cache site with a normal saloon car when driving carefully. Good luck, and remember rocks are favourite hiding places for scorpions and snakes sheltering from the mid-day sun!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre n ebpx, ohg gurer ner znal bs gurz!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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