The town extends along a small plateau, approximately at an altitude of 810 m (2,660 ft), divided into two areas by a tributary ravine of the Wadi Samarat (also known as Wādī Khalkhāl),[1][2][3] which follows its course from southeast to northwest.

Although there are also permanent residents, who carry out construction tasks and are mainly responsible for caring for the goats and maintaining the cultivation areas.

This itinerary has become in recent years one of the most popular routes in Ras al Khaimah, among hiking and climbing fans.

The names of the town of Shairi, Wadi Samarat, Samarat, Wadi Madnan and other place names in the area were recorded in the documentation and maps prepared between 1950 and 1960 by the British Arabist, cartographer, military officer and diplomat Julian F. Walker,[2][10] during the work carried out to establish borders between the then-called Trucial States, later completed by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, on 1:100,000 scale maps published in 1971.

[1] The entire area near Shairi, although initially populated by the Naqbiyin tribe (in Arabic: النقبي), also called Naqabi or Al-Naqabi (from which the name of Wadi Naqab comes),[7] was occupied from approximately 1800, by the Habus tribe,[11][12] which extended, among other territories, through the tribal area of Ahl Ghayl,[11][13] to which Shairi belonged.