Richard And Jo Demeester's photos with the keyword: spring

Ayn Razat is a year-round spring near Salalah. A small strip popular with locals, where the water literally gushes from the rocks. The various pools were filled with fish, of many different varieties, while water birds waded around availing themselves of the self-serve buffet.

I was less comfortable with the headroom inside. The river source was not far inside, a perfect fresh water spring.

We knew not what to expect. There was a sign at a fork pointing to the Grotta Delle Fate, and the distance seemed to fit in with how much time we wanted to spend on the trail. Having an endpoint to aim for adds a small extra incentive to completing a set amount of activity, so we thought a cave sounded like a perfect target to get to. The last sign we saw pointed off the main trail, down an embankment to a river, where we stood on the bank for a few minutes enjoying the serenity but questioning the existence of any cave in the area. A little evidence of scrambling along the river bank encouraged us to head upstream a hundred metres, and there was the cave – with the river coming out of it. A perfect fresh water spring oasis in the forest.