Wadi Ham is a wadi , a seasonal watercourse, in the Hajar Mountains of Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah , United Arab Emirates .
8-627: The main wadi runs from Masafi towards Fujairah City , until it reaches the Wadi Ham Dam and the Gulf of Oman . The wadi is crossed by the Sharjah/Khor Fakkan road north of the village of Daftah , which is in Ras Al Khaimah and traditionally Mazari . The Fujairah village of Al Bithnah and its strategically important fort, Al Bithnah Fort , is on the route. With a total length of some 35 miles,
16-516: A crescent-shaped, contiguous waterway that transects the Hajar Mountains . Like many wadis in the Emirates, Wadi Ham has experienced salt water intrusions in the lower, coastal, part of the wadi, which has affected coastal agricultural systems. This United Arab Emirates location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Masafi Masafi ( Arabic : مسافي )
24-667: Is a village located on the edge of the Hajar Mountains in the United Arab Emirates . It sits at the inland entrance of the Wadi Ham , which runs down to Fujairah City . The border between the emirates of Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah runs through the town, which houses a barracks used by the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces . Until relatively recently, with the construction of the Sharjah to Kalba road and
32-602: The 'truck road' between Dibba and the 311 highway at Ras al-Khaimah , the road through Masafi was the only route from the interior to the East Coast of the UAE. The road from the inland town of Dhaid splits at Masafi, leading to Dibba to the north and Fujairah City to the south. A number of excavations point to Bronze Age habitation in Masafi, which has a recently restored (2012) stone and adobe fort, smaller but architecturally similar to
40-562: The company was the sponsor of the first Masafi Car Rally, a popular annual event no longer held. Located some 5 km West of Masafi (on the Dhaid Road), the Masafi Friday Market ( Souk Al Juma'a ) is actually open week-round and has become a popular tourist destination, consisting of a number of permanent and semi-permanent stalls selling toys, souvenirs, plants, carpets and rugs, pots and fruit and vegetables. The market grew around
48-641: The head of the wadi is in the Jiri Plain near to Adhen . The E 89 Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Road runs along the length of the wadi between Masafi and Fujairah City. A proposed Etihad Rail line is also planned to run along this route. At Masafi, the Wadi Ham joins the Wadi Abadilah , which runs down to the town of Dibba Al Hisn on the East Coast of the UAE, making Masafi the central point on
56-507: The nearby Al Bithnah Fort , also restored as part of the same project. The fort encloses an exceptional example of a falaj , an underground waterway constructed to channel water from the mountains to the oasis towns of the interior. At the turn of the 20th century, Masafi was a village of some 50 houses, with the villagers being split between the Sharqiyin and Mazari tribes, with some 30 cattle, 350 sheep and 5,000 date palms. Masafi
64-553: Was the site of a rough airstrip used by the Trucial Oman Scouts . Masafi is a branded producer of bottled water , juices and other consumer goods such as tissue paper . The company's 250,000 m bottling plant is located in the northern part of the town, part of Ras Al Khaimah. Capable of producing 90,000 bottles an hour, the plant produced, until 2017, the only bottled water in the UAE labelled as mineral water, changing its branding to identify as 'Deep Earth Water'. In 1980,
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