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Black Robes, Black Gold

A travel blog entry by paulej4

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Up early—again—I had my coffee and my walking time and my breakfast and met Martina (the German woman) and Christophe and Marie (the Frenchman and French/Canadian woman) from yesterday's wadi adventure so we could share a Muscat Cab to the Grand Mosque. We had been told to haggle and I was elected by them to be our lead negotiator. Taxis at the Pier in Muscat charge €20 per hour. It is a 20 minute drive to the Mosque (and 20 minutes back) so that would leave us only ...

An epic blog for an epic country

A travel blog entry by hilary_todd

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... in Muttrah. This all seemed very, very different from the Muscat I had heard about and seen photos of from 30 years ago. Mum and Dad – I think Muscat would be unrecognizable to you both! PS: I saw the signs for the turnoff to Medinat Qaboos! I’m so sorry but we didn’t even attempt to find the house. It was a maze of streets and we had no map of that area. I really think we had no hope of finding it, it has just changed that much.

We hopped out of our taxi ...

Dubai to Salalah

A travel blog entry by suearl

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... around the area, most seemed to end up paying about US$80, from all the comments we didn’t miss anything.

We are now upgraded to Gold status (Captains Circle Club) as we have now completed one cruise – Sydney to Dubai counted as 1 cruise, this entitles us to ………..absolutely nothing! But we now have a Gold card rather than our original blue one, whoopy do. But once we end ...

Arabian Nights

A travel blog entry by ospry

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... of them, though dotted with umbrellas, seemed vacant. But construction continued. Ahhh….. the magic of petroleum, and the unquenchable thirst for it. It’s only been recently that oil was the dominant export of Oman. It is the oldest of the various Sultanates in the Arab Peninsula dating from about 5000 years ago. Its claim to fame before oil was Frankincense. ...

Dolphins and Bays

A travel blog entry by jomole

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... snorkelling which was good. He had previously worked for the Sultan as a hospitality service supervisor, going with him when he travelled. Unfortunately we didn't see any green turtles, and had to visit the aquarium for that. We drove on down the coast amongst some stunning scenery. We came to one village where the women were sitting on the ground looking after ...

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