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Favorite thing: This is very important if you try to cross this border.
I was driven to the border by an Omani who left me at the Omani side (naturally).
I had expected transport to pick me up on the UAE side.
I walked through the Omani checkpoint with my bags and baggages which weighed a ton with books and documents etc. Incrediblly I then had to walk for the best part of two miles hrough a no-mans-land with the temperature at 42 degrees. Not a single Omani stopped to help.
I was in this Nether Land and just looked for the next place ahead that could provide shade (like a very rare tree) and aimed myself there. It took me an hour to get to the first of four UAE checkpoints where they all waived me aside in favour of the cars that were coming through. The only thing that drove me o n was the thought of that air conditioned vehicle waiting for me.
Alas, I arrived but there was no car and the driver's cell phone was "out of range". Also, I was severely dehydrated and craving a cigarette but this was mid-morning in the middle of Ramadan. There was no shelter and no respite. After numerous, increasingly cantankerous calls to Dubai, I was rescued and fou nd my way home.