Al Hutayb

Hababa \| Thula \| Al Hajjrah \| Al Hutayb \| Manakha \| Hajer Saeed \| Central Mountains Landscape \| Central Mountains Life
Another inconsistently spelt location, but this time with such wide variations that you really cannot be sure it is the same...Goteib, for example? At least there is one letter in common. A bit of a letdown, not because it is not quite pretty, but because it is so over-hyped and if you arrive having visited Manakha and Al Hajjrah along the way your expectations have already been set rather high. It is home to an Indian sect of Islam, a pilgrim destination necessitating a slick shrine complete with what appear to be solid silver doors (again proving you cannot buy taste), as well as a further shrine perched atop the pinnacle of a small mountain. The white marble shrine stands out particularly because it is so shiny with flowers growing all around, but most of all because it is uncharacteristically clean with a noticeable absence of rubble and general garbage in the area immediately surrounding it. Again, as infidels, we were not permitted to enter; quite what are they afraid will happen?