Road on the Rocks

On a sunny Thursday post afternoon, with the hope of catching up with the sunset at Jebel Hafeet, me and Upalda(an old friend-more important the enabler of the trip) set out towards the outskirts of Al Ain. After about two hours of dedicated driving on a barren highway, we reached the well planned city. The Sheikh has spend money and the place definitely looked more appealing then the concrete jungle coming up in Dubai!! The big brown road sign boards led us to Jebel Hafeet. It was a hillock or a collection of hillocks out of nowhere. No greens, it was pure rock!! The first glimpse of the mountain is nothing exciting but then thats what we did not come for. We came for the winding asphalt that was built on this barren hill albeit equipped with a Hotel and dissappointing Cafe at the Mall at the top.

The winding road was extremely good and perhaps we would have done better with a Aston Martin, but beggars can't be choosers, not always that is. We stopped at some vantage point where I thought of capturing the sun setting as usual promising us for a better day ahead. We

whiled away there and then back were in the car for hitting the top at top gear in a winding sort of way. On the way we passed a few cars and a couple of villas on the rocks and then of course the Hotel. I guess a weekend out here would not be a bad idea with some alcohol on the rocks on the rocks.

We stopped at a couple of mor points that allowed Upalda to go for some more shots of the stony heights with his new acqusition. I was waiting for whats on the top. It was like a flat top that reminded of some old phantom comics of a hill like that.You could skate board on the flat concrete and of course I could see tyre marks too and that means people would have tried out some stunts hopefully without creating trouble for others. I took some more of my silica carbon surroundings while enjoying some good chatter from some Gujarati families having fun.

At the cafe we ordered for coffee without paying heed to my sugarless life and spent discussing some points on phtography(my sister an avid photographer perhaps would be laughing at the whole idea). But then thats what it is and I was keen to make the best out of the evening and why not. The sun had finally set and the lights

came on and I managed this amateurish shot from inside the windscreen while we were winding our spiral downwards. The immediate thoughts were like, would we come here again and perhaps we had mixed feelings about the whole sojourn. The idea was to also visit the park at the foothills but amateurs like us without signage got lost and we started heading towards nowhere land, well not really since the road led to the city centre of Al Ain, But then that was nowhere considering our objective in mind, We came to a roundabout and I insisted that we should turn around and like a good bloke Upalda agreed to the pleasantly put dictat. But then we turned around the lights dazzled us from a distance. I got down from the car and shot some film and I guess more than the images here the naked eye devouring the scene was more effective.

And that was our small Jebel Hafeet episode. Nect we visited our own Jumeirah Beach in Dubai and that was interesting too albeit it was hardly for an hour.

ADIOS!!

P.S. Have you seen the movie Race(Hindi)!! Its happening at Jebel Hafeet!!

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