Last adventure :(...for now!

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I finally got around to finishing the blog! Pics are now all uploaded for all to see!

My last day in Bahrain :(...and still adventures to be had!

We hired a driver today to do our last bit of sightseeing. We went to the famous Tree of Life and the A'ali Burial Mounds. The Tree of Life is a large thriving tree in the middle of the desert with no known water supply. How it sustains itself is a mystery. Interestingly, there is an ancient Islamic village that is currently being excavated surrounding the tree...take a look!

The TREE!

A neat thing about visiting the Tree of Life is that it has been left as is...there are no roads leading to the tree - you see it and drive towards it! There is no parking lot, no souvenir stand...though there was that ice cream truck!

There is literally NOTHING nearby!

The excavators digging away...

One sad thing about the tree - there is a ton of graffiti on the branches :(

On the way to the burial mounds, we passed through a very affluent, green and landscaped area...where the King and his royal family dwell...

The A'ali Burial Mounds caught our interest while at the National Museum. Once someone dies they put his or her ashes in a clay pot, which is placed in a mound of dirt. In A'ali, there is a large field of these mounds. They are also dispersed randomly throughout the surrounding neighborhoods.

Check it out! It was mound after mound after mound...

Well, we did all that we set out to do during these two weeks! After a nice Mexi lunch at Casa Mexicana, it was back home to relax and pack up before my flight home late tonight.

Stay tuned ...there may be more adventures to come in October! Thanks for reading!