Farmland RAK!

These are various pictures taken in some farms in Ras Al Khaima, UAE. Compared to my native place, it just looked so...dry. But really, not bad for a desert. Its that effort, that power of sweat and blood that gives this place its beauty. Its nice.

On the way to RAK

The road to R.A.K takes us through hills and mountains. All every brown. Though spread out like a sea, they seemed lonely.

Ok, this is one of the places where we went first. It was like an orchard. A date palm orchard. But there were mangos and fig and other fruit as well.

The thing about these farms are that they are left open for tourists to come and go as they please, which is all good, but sometimes tourists are heartless people. I saw an Indian family there, a plump balding dad with two lil critters, his wife and some friends. They were just having a good time. They were also making a mess. And then baldy thinks he's gonna be hero in front of his kids and brings out a huge plastic bag from his Land Cruiser and starts shaking a puny little mango tree to get the mangoes. So what? the guy just wants a couple mangoes, he's just having some fun...Gray, why are you being a kill joy?!

I'm not. Its not my intention to. I certainly didn't interfere and stop them even though i wanted to. The mangoes in that tree were roughly the size of the long "Enter" key on your keyboard. They were unripe. They were as yet unusable. And they filled his plastic bag to the brim. Sure a mango or two of that size, with a little salt and chili powder is explosive, but so much of them is gonna give you a stomach ache. Besides, you just know that all those mangoes are going to waste. It feels kind of sad. Also i feel bad for the owner of the farm and for the farmer whose wage depends on those mangoes.

 It wasn't until I came to this other farm that I actually saw veggies and stuff. You know, like there is this image that pops into you're head when you saw farm. You see potatoes and tomatoes and carrots and peas and maybe an Old McDonald(Gah! the side effects of conventional schooling). Well, there was nothing like that over here, but I did get to see some tomatoes and other veggies. Also there were a truck load of farmanimals around

Some amazing creatures.

The hottest guys in the plant knigdom

Not you're average farm animal, eh? :)

Really friendly looking.

Look at him smile

Dunno whats up with him, but he looks like a shcoolkid on detention!

Grass. Yuck. Thank God you're a camel and I'm a human! I 

And then I stumbled upon, Dull Green Paradise!!

 We drove to the next farm and then the next and then the next. And then we stumbled upon this place. It was full of cabbages. All green and huge and juicy.

I seriously had no idea that cabbages could BE so big!!!.

I took this picture at max zoom in my trusty Lilblack. It was so far away. Though bright yellow, we were all guessing what exactly the fruit was.

They were sweet melons.

This one really likes to pose.

Isn't she a beauty?!

More veggies!!!

 There were figs and eggplants and more tomatoes, melons and lemons. We even got to take some home. The farmers there were just too eager to give away their produce and with no charge.

That one cabbage, lasted us a month. Guess what I think about cabbage now...