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| Dune Adventure ~ 17 Feb 2012 |
Last Friday, my family and I went for dune adventures in Al-Kharrara. The place is called Singing Dunes as ones can hear the natural sound phenomenon produced by the movement of the sand, triggered by wind passing over the dune.
That was the first time we went there, being lone ranger and just guided by the gps. It was like a 'redah' trip. Approaching Al-Kharrara, we saw the dunes from a far but we didn't really know how to get there. Luckily, there was this one 4WD vehicle coming from there. So we followed the same trail towards the dunes. It was an open rocky area with the trail of the vehicle tyres. We went around the nearest and biggest dune and found out quite a number of cars parking with some of family members were having picnic and barbecue. The children were having fun, going up and sliding down the dune. There were also few vehicles coming from the other direction, arrived the spot about the same time as us. The weather was just nice with bright sunshine. It was not too hot and not too cold even it was windy.
Excitedly, we parked our car along and began to climb the dune. The other new arrivals joined the climbing, including a couple of middle age folks. At first I thought it was easy but it took a lot of energy and it needs a good stamina to climb the sand dune. I was panting huhu... Being on top of it was priceless! Going down the dune was relatively easy. Being down, we were watching this one 4WD going up and down the dune. Wow, it was impressive! It was then we heard a loud, eerie 'humming' sound from the dune. It was surprisingly loud which at first I thought it was coming from the aircraft engine or something and it lasted for only few minutes. Well it was actually the 'Singing Dune' :)
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| My son was so eager running up the dune |
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| Bergolek-golek siap |
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| The boys were on top of dune |
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We relaxed a while, feeling so good and captured the pics around.
Pic of the middle age couples were relaxing on top of dune. |
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