The Desert and the Tree of Life

We finally took some time to escape from the city and go explore a little more of the desert.  We drove down to the southern portion of the island and really got to see the old Bahrain.  Of course, parts of the desert were full of trash and old oil infrastructure, but it was fun anyway. The kids loved the tree of life.  That may have something to do with the fact that there were 2 ice cream trucks there, and we bought them ice cream.

The following picture is a panorama pic of the desert on the side of the highway.  You will probably need to click on it, so see it larger.

 The desert here is not all sand, it is more rocky and hard.  The pictures you see of camels with sand dunes in the desert are not from Bahrain, The sand blows around here, but there aren't really dunes with loose sand.

 This is the tree of life.  Full of tourists wandering around a tree in the desert.  Of course we had our own photo shoot, like the rest of the tourists.

 This is another panoramic picture, I am standing in the middle of the tree.

 Yes, you can climb up into the tree.  There is some graffiti on the tree, but not as much as I expected.