21.11. Wádí Darbat

After the previous days, when we moved a lot, the plan is not to go anywhere far. We are in no rush in the morning, the children finish school, diaries and read.

In the afternoon we go to Wadi Darbat, without a doubt the biggest attraction around Salalah, but especially in the rainy season, there are crowds of people here, as evidenced by the huge parking lots. Today we are practically alone here, we walk a small circuit of dry wadis to the waterfalls, there are only a few lakes/puddles. In the place where there is a waterfall, calcium carbonate deposits are clearly visible, which are deposited on the surface of the rock through which the water flows, creating a kind of curtains. Only after the biggest waterfall a little water flows. We observe lizards and huge spiders, some spiders have a web right in the parking lot and another stretched across the road. Later I google that they belong to the genus Nephila, their body is up to 4cm, their legs span up to 12cm and their webs up to 1m.

We go to look above the waterfalls and further to Wadi Darbat. At one viewpoint we meet a herd of camels, they want to look at us even more closely than we do them, in the end I lose and I flinch first, he would have poked me with his snout. There are several smaller steps above the falls and there is water here, it reminds me of Croatian rivers. We drive to the end, as far as you can go by car, on the way we meet a lot of camels who just walk along the road and give way only reluctantly, they have the absolute right of way. At the end, we go for a short walk along a path above a flowing wadi, which resembles a Polish floodplain river, we observe birds, lizards, flowers and insects, the influence of the summer humidity can be seen, there are even trees and herbs. We end the early evening on the beach, the children swim until sunset.