Driving The Most Challenging Mountain Roads in Oman
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Welcome to Part 3 of our Oman series, covering our 1 month 4x4 camping road trip around Oman in February and March 2022. Join us as we explore some of Oman’s most challenging 4x4 roads in our rented Toyota Fortuner (hired via bit.ly/OmanCarHire).
We wake up at a spectacular wild camp spot at a mountain pass between Wadi Bani Kharus and Wadi Bani Awf, then head for a morning swim at Little Snake Canyon. We drive through Wadi Bani Awf to the beautifully situated village of Bilad Sayt, tucked away in the mountains with terraces stretched out in front.
Next, we follow more 4x4 tracks through the mountains to Wadi As Sahtan and a spacious camping area looking right up at Jebel Shams. It’s a lovely spot with trees for shade so we decide to have a ‘rest day’, which means catching up on laundry (using our trusty Scrubba!), backing up footage, and prepping some food.
The following day we set off to tackle the most challenging mountain roads we’ve experienced in Oman. First up is the drive to Wijmah village, tucked into the cliffs below Jebel Shams. The village is about 500 years old and fascinating to explore. In the afternoon we head to Yaseb, via a twisting road that eventually leads along an almost sheer cliff face. The views are amazing, but this section of the road is pretty nerve-wracking!
We wanted to check if the road from Yaseb village to Jebel Shams had been finished yet, but it hadn’t so we just returned the same way. With sunset fast approaching, we headed for the same familiar camp spot for a third night.
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00:00 Intro
00:34 Mountain Pass Camp
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05:25 Driving to Wadi Bani Awf
06:17 Bilad Sayt
06:49 Driving to Wadi As Sahtan
08:17 Camp Below Jebel Shams
09:43 Rest Day at Camp (camping chores)
15:12 Morning at Camp
18:16 The Road to Wijmah
20:44 Wijmah Village
23:14 Leaving Wijmah and Lunch With a View
25:13 The Road to Yaseb (scariest road in Oman?)
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Welcome to Episode 3 in our Oman Series, the one where Kim feels 'a little bit of puke in her mouth' as we tackle the most nerve-wracking mountain roads in all of Oman, but of course Del stays cool as a 🥒If you fancy an Oman road trip yourself, check out our travel guides and ready-made road trip itineraries over on the blog >>> www.goingthewholehogg.com/destinations/middle-east/oman/ Hope you enjoy the film! Cheers for watching, Kim & Del
Once again, the story telling in this video is next level. Love it!
Cheers Zac, that means a lot! 😃
Very interesting washing machine. Hadn't occurred to me to use a bag in that way
Haha, yeah! That’s actually the Scrubba washbag, a dry bag with a kind of pimpled plastic washboard inside. This one’s been going strong since 2018 😃
Love the navigation: "Turn left! - off the cliff" 🙈😅. Love following your travels through Oman ❤
Haha, yeah, not gonna follow that one! Navigation was usually spot on though, have to say. Thanks Jennifer! 😃
Thanks for some excellent footage of this fascinating country. I have visited Oman several times, although nothing as adventurous as your trips, and found it to be the most authentic and welcoming place in the Middle East by far.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for that David, very much appreciated. We would say that authentic and welcoming is a wholly accurate description of Oman, hard to think of two more appropriate adjectives. Thanks again.
Really enjoying the weekly episodes and feeling very inspired to visit Oman. Looking forward to Episode 4!
Glad to hear it! Episodes 4 and 5 are up on Patreon already if you want to binge 😉
Hi Kim&Del, its a great video. its make me missing so musch to Oman,From those areas I visited jabal shams and bilad sayt, I cant wait another Oman video. to be honest, I am pretending you drive UAZ-Buhanka ( I following u since that 😁)
Hey, thanks very much! Editing these videos also wants us to go back even more. That’s great, thanks, we wish we were driving our own UAZ Buhanka 😃
Thank you again, really love the travels you take us on!! 👏🙏👍
Thank you! Really appreciate the support and appreciation 😃
Loving the Oman videos! They've made me add Oman to my bucketlist. I'm also a fan of this format! Very enjoyable to watch
Glad to hear it, thanks so much! We would definitely recommend a trip to Oman (as I'm sure you've gathered by now!). Cheers for watching and appreciating : ) Kim
Amazing
Thanks very much 😃
Another amazing venture ...what a football pitch, what a village, what a view and roads without protective bars...Wow...
Thanks very much! Yeah, no green grass for a game in the mountains! And that village is famous for good reason, picturesque in the extreme. And yeah, no barriers on those roads, responsible drivers only 😅
We were there for 2 weeks in Feb '23, my 4th trip to Oman but the first time I had been in these mountains, it was breathtaking. Thank you for this video it has brought it all back. Love Oman, love the people and culture.
That’s great, thank you for the appreciation. Since this was your 4th trip, it seems you love Oman as much as we do. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks again 😃
Paul Cézanne said, “It is the artist's duty to be at one with nature.”
I understand what he said as follows:
“It means that in order to create a meaningful world, we should become one with nature.
Given the process by which inner essence of yours and nature become one and with the passage of time, the journey in which more diverse processes are harmonized in an orderly way, two of you definitely show the process of systematically creating A WORK OF ART even in Oman, centered on your life philosophies.
So, I actually look upon all the most attractive videos about your travels as THE MOST INCOMPARABLY STRIKING WORKS OF ART!
Why don’t you try to offer all your videos to the broadcasting stations in the UK to broadcast nationally?
(From Seoul)
P.S.: I also posted what I felt up to SHORTS VIDEO of yours.
Once again, what can we say!? To be mentioned in the same breath as Paul Cézanne is an honour, and we wholeheartedly thank you for your appreciation of our work. Hopefully we can reach a wider audience in the future through a variety of ways and on different platforms. Saw your comment on the Short and replied 😃… thanks again!
Hi Kim, how do u get to the northern entrance to little snake canyon ?
Hi, you can drive around to it on the road most of the way, then it's off-road on a wadi track for a short section. You can drive as far as this point 23.210578, 57.385617 then walk to the pool, it's about 5 - 10 mins walk
I think, Al Barida road is most dangerous in Oman
Interesting 🤔… where’s that? Maybe we can drive it next time 😃
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where you guys from
Scotland