Haffa House Muscat

... new hotels in this bay. The 6 star Shangri La Al Husn is located on a heading over looking the other two hotels down on the beach. This is essentially a business hotel, it has all facilities for meetings etc and a very quiet ambiance. The ...

... Had dinner in the club of the Ministry of Defense right next to the beach, in a wonderful setting. (Eating from wonderful Rosenthal plates). Today we took a long trip first to the great mosque here in Muscat, which had the most amazing chandelier, visited a mighty ford in Barka and continued our way back to the beach to have dinner in a very english/US restaurant. Picked up the small one from his Karate class and are up to the evening activities in a few minutes.

... on each headland. The Souq (market) was open so we strolled there for a while, admiring the lovely wooden ceiling, stained glass lanterns and many shops selling this and that. We picked up some frankinsence, and I bought an Omani silver pendant. Oman is famous for its silver jewellery but most of the old and real stuff it is long gone I fear. The people seemed very friendly and the whole place has a traditional and authentic feel to it. The population is ...

... we would have the most low cost hotel options there. After trying a few hotels we ended up at the Cornish for about $25 a night each. Not too bad considering the very very powerful air-conditioner that the room offered. It was 6:00 am at this point and it was already sticky hot out, much hotter than in Jordan. We were both exhausted from not sleeping the night before. The only good option seemed to be to sleep until dusk when the temperature would go down.

... 8pm. I finished the book I was reading and got caught up on some sleep though. I felt bad for Erica who had to put up with me in sick mode (not a pretty sight as some of you have already witnessed!). Sunday I was determined to leave bed. So we went to the beach where I pretty much set up a new bed on the beach and barely moved from it. The water was so hot and the sand was even hotter. You had to walk for about a mile before it started getting any where near your ...

... I will never make it to the highway as all directions had the same terrain, n if I sleep in the night I would probably be covered by a sand dune next day. Also the tracks which we were making were getting covered by sand because of wind. So its very important that you have a person who knows the place well. Lucky we had Ali. We did these X-games kind of stuff for an hour n then hit the highway. Driving 120 kmph I reached home my 0530 pm. The next two days I spent in hangover of the trip.