Travel Blogs from Ruwi, Oman

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How different Oman is from UAE, yet so close!

A travel blog entry by worldtraveler2

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... to build sky scrapers. We actually felt like we were somewhere in the Middle East. The immigration officers in Oman, wore beige robes (dishdash) with scarfs wrapped like a turban with beautiful designs. The second day in Muscat, we hired a ...

Al Khuwair fort

A travel blog entry by abatage

... , as they used to guard them a long time ago. My grandparents had come over from Australia to spend Christmas with our family and to see Oman so one day we took them to see Al Khuwair fort. The photos speak for themselves so I will leave it for them to do ...

Roundabouts in Oman

A travel blog entry by abatage

... to put in a photo of the Al Ashwar roundabout that my father took as he was flying out to do some surveying for work. Oman has some amazing roundabouts that are monstrous in size, especially compared to those that we get here in Australia. They usually ...

Hannibal and the Ice Box

A travel blog entry by dresdenfae

... was kind enough to let me eat the crabs while she ate the mussels. That night we took a cab to a neighboring suburb called Ruwi. We decided that we should be more constructive with our time and planned on visiting Nizwa, a fort town about 2 hours ...

Ruwi

A travel blog entry by stevowevo

... bus journey to Muscat was interesting, lots of desert and mountain views, a crazy bus driver, a slightly ominous stop at border control and a free burger meal courtesy of the cheapest and bumpiest bus I've ever been on.And so my time in Oman had ...

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