The Adventures of Kenny & Erica: In Search Of the Wild Wadis of Hatta

Chondo Mwatengele

Kenya, Chigato

AGE: 16
SCHOOL: Mwache
COUNTRY: Kenya
REGION: Kenya
CITY/VILLAGE: Chigato
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

In Search Of the Wild Wadis of Hatta

On a lovely Friday morning the Jones and Clark families headed out in search of

The Wild Wadis of Hatta

Hatta is about an hour and half outside of Dubai. It is on the Oman border and is famous for the Hatta fort, the wadis (water pools) and the milder climate because of the higher elevation.

We stopped off to have some breakfast at the Hatta Fort Hotel. Delicious! They even had real bacon... not something that you get everywhere in this Muslim country!

The hotel offers tons of activities...

pool, camel rides, horseback trails, shooting gallery, mini golf, walking trails and other fun family activities.

Here is one of the permanent residents of the hotel. He had a bit of a fly on his face issue.

Poor bugger.

In search for the waterfall that is supposed to be part of the wadis we came across this ramshackle old camping site.

We were guessing this was either the check in counter or the bar. Being a muslim country we figured it must be the bar.

Hours of off roading through dirt paths, mountains and hills we had no luck finding any wadis or even any water at all. There were lots of caution signs saying Wadi with a huge ! but for what we weren't sure. There wasn't a drop of precipitation anywhere.