We’d spent the morning photographing the herds of Oryx just south of Bab Al Shams. After a rather warm drive across the bumpy sand dunes we decided to stop for lunch. Usually the trees we stop at are inundated with rubbish from previous visitors, so this time we thought we would go for somewhere more “out of the way”. This one certainly fits the bill. Although it is only a few hundred metres off the sabkah plain that runs East to West, it is well protected by some challenging dunes. Clearly no one comes here.
Our tree was sheltered on all sides by dunes with just enough of a plateau for our two cars. This is such a beautiful location that we chose to mark the occasion by placing a Geocache.
I suppose you could park on the sabkah and then hike across the dunes to get here, but that will be hard work and also not as much fun. But, if you do want to drive here, make sure you go with at least two cars, know how to drive in the dunes and take the correct recovery equipment with you – you may need it!