Coral Hotel Muscat
Hay Asaruj, Shati Al Qurum Muscat, 112, Oman
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Another lazy day in the sun
... tea and teaspoon again! Bit of a quandary – do I risk the same as yesterday, or do without? Anyway, solved by people coming to sit next to me and I asked them to watch my food and seat!
And indeed by the time I came back, and I wasn’t slow, there had been 2 attempts to take the food and one attempt at sitting there – I thanked them profusely and enjoyed a triumphant breakfast – little things…
Was going ...
Muscat, Oman
... I met up with my colleague Anneke here and together we took an evening tour of the city, which we are glad we did. There was a lot to see and our guide was really nice and informative. We visited a museum, the old city of Muscat (harbor), the Muttrah Corniche, the Old Muttrah Souk, the Sultan Qaboos bin Said ...
An epic blog for an epic country
... at night, watching a massive turtle dig a hole, lay her eggs (we could even see the eggs come out!), and then cover them back up again with her massive flippers. We also saw the little baby hatchings from another nest waddling down the beach and getting swept out to sea. It was just amazing and we were both on such a high after that that it didn’t faze us having another night camped in the car.
The following evening we did manage to find a hotel, much to our relief. ...
Arabian Nights
... the ship, and to watch the sea. We are in a busy shipping area. We are also in an area of oil drilling platforms. I see nothing that distracts from the esthetics of the sea. To the contrary I see ships transporting the industrial necessities and creations of mankind and a source of the power that has enabled the productive among us to provide the world with the tools we need to create ...
Muscat
... place.
Next we went to Carol's house and later headed for resort area. Oman
has some of the most luxurious beach hotels in the world. We had
lunch in a hotel that was originally built to house an OPEC
conference and it appears that no penny was spared in the luxurious
trimmings.
The barren desert mountains around Muscat provide
some very unique scenery. Until the current Sultan overthrew his
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