Yay!
The breaking of the fast which ends Ramadan is named Eid ul-Fitr, or sometimes just "Eid". This is the big holiday for Muslims. In Dubai work, school and industry take a few days to a week off.
For those of us here who are non-Muslims this is a prime chance to travel. Sadly, some of us non-Muslims also have non-jobs, and are thus making non-money, so we take part in what I call non-travel.
But seriously, poor Liz wanted so badly to get out of town, so we decided to take a day trip to Hatta.
Hatta is interesting because, while still in the emirate of Dubai, one has to drive through Oman to get there. But there's no border crossing or passport-stamping - the only way we could tell we were in a different country is that when we stopped to get gas the payment was in Omani rials. Oops. Luckily they took Dirhams!
Anyway, Hatta is only 70 to 80 miles away from us. Here's a map, with Hatta in red - remember, we're actually closer to Jebel Ali than to Dubai (the places in green are our other trips from last year).
Hatta was pretty small, but had some nice history. They have two reconstructed military towers from the 18th century and a village that dates to 2000 to 3000 years old. Here's the somewhat limited website for the Department of Tourism.
It was really nice to get out of Dubai, even if it was only a few hours.
Here's the gallery:
Hope you enjoy!
