Oman Sheraton Hotel Muscat

... against a backdrop of high desert mountains, the capital has plenty to see including the Grand Mosque, one the worlds largest, and the Souk &#8211; a step back into the Middle Ages.<br><br>Most of the quality hotels in the country are in or ...

... seems if time allows the place to go. Much like in all countries at present, he had studied at university but jobs were difficult to come by so was working as a taxi driver. Tourism is growing in Oman and with his English, and enthusiasm should do OK. This was a relatively pricey tour but both Geoff and I had enjoyed the day, but felt no need to learn more of the country and its people, whereas India we do. Back on board for our final evening, and we had a table in ...

Walking around the neighborhood of the hotel last night, we came across some examples of our country's finest exports (see photos). I've now found our best restaurants in so many places around the world, I'm surprised I still get shocked at seeing these chains outside the US. Food here in Oman reminds me of what Shira and I saw in Dubai last year. There really isn't anything available at restaurants that can be considered local dishes. Everything seems a blend of Indian ...

... d'une terrible dictature où les pasdarans et autres fachos en costumes religieux terrorisent au quotidien les (pauvres) iraniens décidement peu en jambe. Le rapport à la politique qu'ils entretiennent n'a cessé, a travers les nombreuses discussions que j'aie eues ici et la (conférant a ma reflexion un chouilla plus de crédibilite que mon precedent paragraphe, davantage produit d'une humble et modeste observation oculaire), de ...

Yesterday morning we had a look around the administrative center of Muscat, visited the well-made Omani museum, the museum on french-omani relations and say the sultan's palace. We were permanently surrounded by European tourists which crowded the city coming from the Costa Europa cruise ship which was stopping in the port. In the afternoon I realized that people here are used to spending a fair amount of time in their cars, driving from one place to another, no ...

... I must say it was pretty tame, but a good way to start what we hope will be many adventures in Oman. It was interesting scenery, rough stony country with small sand-coloured villages, date palm plantations and a quite dramatic section of rock walled canyon. We took a chance that one of the roads would lead us back to Muscat and it did - with some thrilling driving on the twisting hilly road in between - but The Beast doesn't make much of a rally car, and of ...

... and then you smell like smoke again. Someone forgot to send Jordan the memo that smoking kills! By the time we got to the airport we still had several hours to kill. We spent the time flipping through celebrity magazines and wondering why the duty free didn't carry Pepto-Bismol. Our first flight was short and a bit disorienting. At one point I thought we were about to land, but it turned out it was time for dinner. Our plane touched down for about ...

... on the way to the beach standing up on their back legs trying to get some branches off the trees. The beach was totally secluded there weren't even any roads to get there we had to go off-roading. I was still really sick especially after the drive so Tina made me my own little Oasis under an umbrella. I pretty much stayed there all day occasionally getting up to climb over the sand dune with the spade to use the WC. That took a lot of effort! It was about 43C and ...

... small fishes were trying to pull my leg :) After that refreshing bath in wadi waters and having nice lunch of biryani on the highway we started for our final and the ultimate adventure destination. The Wahiba sand Dunes..! Here we drove ourselves for sometime on some rough patch before reaching the dunes. Driving on sand dunes requires quite a good experience else you will make the SUV roll down on sides. Our hearts started beating very fast as we drove through tilts of 45 degs ...