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the path to aqabat
Stop! Stop! How dare you laff et me, /
Bekaze I foul de time an’ key, /
Thinks you dat I is Black Pattie, /
Mah ’ittle Touzle Head?
Ray G. Dandridge, ’Ittle Touzle Head
Two hours of scrambling up the canyon walls above Misfat al Abriyeen – itself nestled on the slopes above Al Hamra – will get you to piles of stones thrown together to make a few rooms, rising up and falling down into the rocks of the mountain slope. This is Aqabat al Hamra, translating roughly into the place where you can see Al Hamra (below), or if you’d like it neatly packaged, view of Al Hamra. Aqabat translates into slope, so in a way it is also the slope above Al Hamra.
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