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A popular pastime with both residents and visitors is known as "wadi-bashing" -- exploring the wadis or dry beds of streams that flow after winter rains from the Hajar mountains.

Real exploration off the beaten track requires four-wheel-drive vehicles which are available for hire with or without drivers.

For the adventurous, an hour or so of rough driving can be rewarded by scenes of great and unexpected beauty: rock pools, some with water year-round, carved into strange shapes by the rushing seasonal torrents; greenery clinging to a precarious existence; tiny cultivated plots and stone houses, evidence of man's tenacity.