Wadi Al Shab

We had an incredible day today:
We hiked up into a wadi/ canyon called Wadi al Shab, along the canyon floor at first and then higher and higher up the slopes along a goat track until we were about 100m above the valley floor with another 700 meters of rock walls above us. Absolutely breathtaking!

About 3 kms in, we descended to the wadi floor strewn with huge 5m high boulders and worked our way down in direction of the sea to then discover a small tunnel with a water shoot leading down into a huge cave filled with water. (Kindly, someone had connected a rope to decend the slippery shoot safely). At the end of the rope you plomped into this huge pool in the middle of a huge cave dome.
By chance we had forgotten our camera and so had nothing critical with us, so we just climbed in with clothes and all.
We then swam out of the cave through a washed out crack where only your head had space above water. After about 15 meters you were out in the open again and in deep rock pools lined by endless high cliffs on all sides.
After swimming about 100 meters we found solid rock under foot and returned to walking the 2 km out of the Wadi.
Unfortunately no Fotos are available but I managed to find something in the Web.

This was the most exciting and incredible day I have had in ages (and to be honest, we havn't really been spared from tingling experiences!
This evening we are exhausted. (Margot plomped into bed at 18:00 and hasn't woken up since)

Here is a video I found on you tube:

https://youtu.be/zDws2UdplXARead more