Dodging the Wild Life in Wadi Wurayah
Dodging the Wild Life in Wadi Wurayah
2012
It was a return to Wadi Wurayah after three years absence. We first went up this way early 2009. That makes me feel ancient as Dubai and the UAE is such a transitory place. Anyway we were back and ready to go canyoning.
The hotel we were staying at, yes it was May, had broken our car the day before so we left with either smashing Mike’s Audi up in the wadi or parking up and taking a hungover precipitous decent down into the wadi from the car park. After a precipitous decent later we were in the wadi standing opposite the graffiti strewn pool.
We dodged that pool and wandered up the wadi towards the series of pools we visited all those years ago. The first pool was relief. We got out of the heat that right away we were swimming. Through that pool and we shimmied around a camel spider, snake and some little pools. We came to a cross roads...
Taking the right fork we scrambled up the side in order to return back through the wadi. After 100m we nipped into wadi and took on a series of pools with the odd bit of swimming.
On the return we dodged the camel spider and snake and did a spot of litter picking to cover some of the other visitors to this beautiful spot.
All in all as a summer activity it was really cool.
Canyoning - Wadi Wurayah
19/5/2012