The Grand Canyon

Over the weekend, S & I decided to go to the Oman's highest mountain, Jebel Shams (Mountain of the Sun; 3009m). It is around 3.5 hours drive from Muscat. It had started to get hot when we left from Muscat but we were welcomed by heavy rains at Jebel Shams. It was lovely to see such heavy rains after a long time.The temperature was around 15C during the evening and I am sure it would have dropped to 10 degrees by night. We went out to see this Grand Canyon in the evening.


Jebel Shams is best known not for its peak but for the view into the spectacularly deep Wadi Ghul lying alongside it. The straight-sided Wadi Ghul is known locally as the Grand Canyon of Arabia as it fissures abruptly between the flat canyon rims, exposing vertical cliffs of 1000m and more.