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Another lazy day in the sun
Wednesday 11th – Muscat, Oman
A bit earlier tonight reporting in – only 8pm – no casino tonight as we are overnight in the port and the casino only opens at sea. Double the money to gamble tomorrow then!
Wow, another good sleep – woke first at 6am and opened the curtains, still dark,and woke again at 8am with my alarm going off and we are sailing into Muscat, in the Sultanate of Oman. Pretty ...
Sultanate of Oman
... pick up. For us, both enjoying the beach and driving, it was one of the highlights and nice treat after weeks backpacking. In addition, we will keep in good memory the nights sleeping under the stars at the beach and desert in our sleeping bags.
The photos are covering the capital Muscat, the Omani coast line along the Arabian Sea to Sur and Masirah Island and the most scenic area around Jebel Sham with the Arabian Grand Canyon called Wadi ...
An epic blog for an epic country
... the turtles were fully booked out until the end of the first week of September! It was all the Indian families that were out on holidays. I was devastated and tried everything to convince the man behind the counter to let us see the turtles. I sat down, totally deflated. At was at this point, that the man came over to us, and whispered to us, that he would let us on the tour that night – essentially he had to ‘cook’ the books to do this. I was so thankful I ...
Muscat
Day 81 – March 26
We left Dubai at 10AM and headed for Muscat, Oman.
Like Dubai, this country borders Saudi Arabia and it shares with
Yemen the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula.
After exiting the strait of Hormuz we sailed
southwest in the Arabian Sea. The sea was calm and the weather a warm
30C the entire day.
Day 82 – March 27 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Muscat, Oman - The Quiet Side of Arabia
... There’s some fabulous examples of wooden Omani doors.” They wandered off leaving us to ponder our good fortune. Margaret and David, both total strangers, had offered us a lift in their car. Perhaps the ex-pat community in Muscat were all like them, but somehow we doubted it.
The art on display was quite eye-catching, and like Margaret had said, the wooden doors were brilliant. Eyeing some of the price-tags was also eye-catching, massively out of our price ...



