Or, the Valley of Hassa, was my final adventure of the Eid Holiday, and it did not disappoint. It was advertised as a hike but turned out really to be more of a swim than a hike...
The "hike" began with a nice slide down a waterfall/natural water slide, about 20 ft long and at an exciting 45 degree angle. Awesome! We continued to swim along through the river channels surrounded on all sides by amazing white rock formations with beautiful projections of light sneaking through crevices and dancing on the stone walls.
We also encountered lots of foliage and at times were sneaking through tiny crevices in the stone walls or swimming under strands of bulrushes or bamboo that made me feel like I was in a Vietnam War film (without the whole war part...). Our guide did keep making clicking noises to scare away the Afghani vipers...
One of my favorite parts of the trek was arriving at a water pool and getting to climb up and jump off two different rock platforms, one at about 5 meters, and the other between 7-8 meters high.
We only travelled 4 km but it took us more than five hours. I was tired, and am still sore, but it was one of the coolest things I've ever done.
I wasn't able to bring my camera along, because of all the swimming, but here are some images from the Tropical Desert website of the actual trek we took.
The "hike" began with a nice slide down a waterfall/natural water slide, about 20 ft long and at an exciting 45 degree angle. Awesome! We continued to swim along through the river channels surrounded on all sides by amazing white rock formations with beautiful projections of light sneaking through crevices and dancing on the stone walls.
We also encountered lots of foliage and at times were sneaking through tiny crevices in the stone walls or swimming under strands of bulrushes or bamboo that made me feel like I was in a Vietnam War film (without the whole war part...). Our guide did keep making clicking noises to scare away the Afghani vipers...
One of my favorite parts of the trek was arriving at a water pool and getting to climb up and jump off two different rock platforms, one at about 5 meters, and the other between 7-8 meters high.
We only travelled 4 km but it took us more than five hours. I was tired, and am still sore, but it was one of the coolest things I've ever done.
I wasn't able to bring my camera along, because of all the swimming, but here are some images from the Tropical Desert website of the actual trek we took.
My first natural waterslide. http://tropicaldeserttrips.com/WadiHassa.aspx
Unbelievable. http://tropicaldeserttrips.com/WadiHassa.aspx
Some cliff-diving spots. http://tropicaldeserttrips.com/WadiHassa.aspx
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