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Pearling Trail trek on Bahrain National day 16-12-2020

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This was my first time to witness the joyful and vibrant celebrations of  Bahrain national day. Moreover COVID19 forced us to be within the country whole year and trekking on the mountains was not possible. So I decided to make use of the opportunity and explore Bahrain during national day holidays. I had read about the Pearling Trail last year but my plans to visit the trail were aborted due to the pandemic and the holidays for National day made the perfect setting to this exploration.  Bahrain has rich tradition and culture not much known outside the kingdom. The history and importance of pearl probably made the creators of the trail choose the name.  Origin of Name and a bit of history of Bahrain : Bahrayn  is the  dual form  of Arabic  bahr  ("sea"), so  al-Bahrayn  originally means "the two seas", It remains disputed which "two seas" the name  Bahrayn  originally refers to.  Today, Bahrain's "two seas" are generally taken to be the bay e