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Electrical lines indicate the houses had modern
services
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The main falaj channel
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Stairs leading up through the abandoned houses
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Some houses were in very good condition
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The light offered different perspectives
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Natural light
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The ceiling timbers and matting of one house
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Another view
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A cat's sleep interrupted, a scarf hanging on a
peg
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Wall decorations
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Baskets and bowls
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Detail
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Soot stains the walls
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View looking uphill
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The houses are multi-storey
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The gardens below
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Many houses have collapsed
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Plaster fallen away to expose the flat stones
used in the wall
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House (right) of mud brick and stone
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Exposed rock above the houses
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Houses built exclusively with flat stones
(slate?)
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Another view of the stone houses
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From the tower looking down on the village
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Another view of the valley
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Looking down the wadi towards the old road to
Muscat
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Aqueduct (left) and a fort downstream
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The fort downstream
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The old and new villages
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Aqueduct cutting through the date gardens
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Tower remains (right) and gardens below
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Another view
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View towards Nizwa
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Some of the stone houses
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Stone houses
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Detail
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More of the mud and stone houses
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Laborers joined us near the tower
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Everyone took turns photographing each other
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Interior of one house
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Note the fine stone wall
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Peaked archway
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Were those rifle slots from the original
building?
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One of the passage ways near the tower
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Stone was the main building material for many
houses
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Walkways were narrow and winding
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Evidence of renovations
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Well-built two-storey dwelling
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Falaj and pathway at lower levels of the old
village
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Interior of one home; were the mud walls
painted?
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Steel pipe used for pegs on the walls
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A magnificent house
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Different perspective of the magnificent house
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House may have been three stories high
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Another view of falaj which used for irrigation
and bathing
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Interior
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Natural light of interior room
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As at Manah, houses extended over pathways
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Garden outside the village
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Engraved door
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Blue and yellow paint was used to decorate the
door
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Door bell
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Double set of heavy doors on gate into village
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Alley leading to the abandoned hosues
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Bob making his way back to the cars
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