Crowne Plaza (Executive Suite) Salalah

... Oli has started work at the college, met some other foreigners (surprisingly quite a few Canadians) who've given him the low-down on living here. There's one bar, Oasis, where apparently everyone goes... there's a nice gym at the Carlton Hotel where memberships are fairly cheap and include use of their private beach, swimming pool, and exercise equipment... and all that greenery that we saw pictures of is a good 30km ...

... we reached Dhofar mountain range it was 47-48degC all throughout starting from Buraimi. On Dhofar Mountain the temperature changed to 26degC. In Salalah the temperature was min 26 to 33 DegC max which in later days changed to 26-30degC due to cloudy weather and then rained</li><br><br><li>Best time to visit Salalah is after rains. This year the rains just started from 20-July so best time to visit Salalah would be after 15-August when ...

... were no facilities for cruise passengers within the port. The non-tour passengers would take the shuttle to the front gate and then dive into a large pool of taxis waiting to provide transportation into and around the city of Salalah. A chance meeting with one of the guides for the ship's organized tours provided us with a different and better option to see the area of Salalah. The Tour Guide's son was starting his own tour business and was willing to take us around the ...

2008.11.03 Oman We are taking the Frankincense Trail tour, the only tour in Oman. The tour guide is an agreeable guy who makes the tour interesting by filling us in on his country, Omani life, and eventually himself. Every small hamlet, even if the people live in tents or cement block houses, has public supplied water (we can see the black hose strung along the edge of the highway), a school for boys and one for girls, a ...

Monday 3 Nov For those of you who were expecting a blow-by-blow account of our latest jaunt I apologise now. Internet access has been a problem for us, despite being surrounded by computers. I won't bore you with the useless detail on this one. We spent our first week in Muscat visiting the old school and seeing old friends. There aren't many of them left now, so we may not be able to come again. The weather in Muscat was unseasonably HOT - 37 degrees on arrival and ...

After an amazing sleep, in a big comfy bed, we hired our Ford Mondeo through Budget (office at the Crown Plaza) and headed out to do some exploring. Heading up into mountains was fun, although I a little stressful driving in fog so thick you could only see two metres in front of you. The mountains are lush with vegetation, which would normally be covered in dried dirt and sand at other times of the ...

Alarm screams at 5am, dragging myself out of bed, dressing bleary eyed, I am packed and ready to go. We are heading down to Salalah for a few days of cooler weather and relaxation. Today all I wanted to do was arrive at our destination and straight to the swim up bar....I think pina colada's are on the menu. We flew to Muscat and after a 3 hour stopover we were on our way. Landing in this little regional airport of ...

March 20, Holy Thursday We had an interesting time in Salalah, the capital of the Dhofar Province in the Sultanate of Oman. It is very warm here at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula and very dry. Salalah is the summer residence for the sultan and a resort destination for Arabs and Indians during the summer months. The country is dry and brown during this time of year, but beginning in May there is a monsoon season that transforms the place. A light rain falls throughout the ...

Land of frankincense and the perfume capital of Arabia. Also known as the resting place of the biblical prophet Job in nearby Jabal al Qar. We were able to visit the pool of Namaan and the ruins of a palace reputed to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba in Khawr Rhori . To the west of ...