Living in the United Arab Emirates, I was able to venture into the Hajjar Mountains forming the border with the Sultanate of Oman – but the rugged Musandam Peninsula, a tangle of barren ridges jutting into the strategically vital Straits of Hormuz, remained off limits.
Eighteen years later, at last I peered through the heat haze into the Wadi Bih from the slopes of Jebel Harim on the Omani side.
Living in the United Arab Emirates, I was able to venture into the Hajjar Mountains forming the border with the Sultanate of Oman – but the rugged Musandam Peninsula, a tangle of barren ridges jutting into the strategically vital Straits of Hormuz, remained off limits.
