In February of 1992, The Los Angeles Times ran a story written by Thomas H Maugh II, the newspaper’s Science writer, detailing how the Lost City of Ubar was found. Bogs will eventually punch Ubar into his phone’s GPS - found what seemingly was the right location and without any complaints from us, drove through the sun-drenched and blinding roads of Dhofar headed for Ubar. It was an interesting tale which roused their interest. I also explained that it’s a fabled city supposedly mentioned in the Qur’an and “A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.” The Qur’an referred to it as the city of Iram, its people called Ad and for all the good things that they possessed, they’ve grown wicked for which God punished them. I went on to explain that it has become popular as the Atlantis of the Sand, the nickname given by TE Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia. Sketchy of the details, I added that based from what I saw, it was somewhere near the Empty Quarter. I shared that I saw a Facebook post from one of the media influencers in the country that talked about it. He’s been reading the newspaper for as often as he gets them, yet Ubar was also an unknown subject to him. He raised a child here and a second one is coming. Rolando Escrupolo, our other buddy, has been in the Sultanate for more than 8 years. We were parked at one of the corners of the Frankincense farm in Daykah. A fellow travelphile, he was clueless when I brought the subject of The Lost City of Ubar. Bogs Jacildo has been in the Sultanate for 12 years. It was literally in the middle of nowhere and the only semblance of modernity in that part of Oman are the on-going road construction and the patches of wide farms which I presumed were growing fodder for animals. By Yeru Ebuen - About 3 hours’ drive from Salalah, roughly 55 kilometres from the main road of Thumrait, is the small little town of Shisr.
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