Ramada Qurum Beach Muscat
PO Box 1011, Ruwi Sarooj St, Shatti Alqurum Muscat, 112, Oman
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Bad Start, But Getting Better
The start of my Swedish Sportslov (where Swedes go skiing in freezing cold weather, but I decide to go to Oman to warm up), did not start particularly well. Heathrow has become a nightmare - I barely made my connection. Then my hotel did not pick me up from the airport as promised (I even called the day before to confirm) and when I used the ATM at …
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Black Robes, Black Gold
... calamari, of crab, of shark, of barracuda, of this and of that. Much bargaining would take place with buyers and sellers both holding up the number of fingers representing how many fish were being traded and a price was agreed upon whereupon the seller would remove his hat, the buyer would plop the money into the hat and the seller would deftly replace it on his head. One word of warning: If you are handed any bill that has been used as currency at the Muscat fish market, do not ...
An epic blog for an epic country
... was so exciting seeing all those items that Mum and Dad had brought back to NZ. It brought back a lot of memories of my childhood – like chewing on those silver coasters and using the frankincense holders as a rattle! You could still buy all of that stuff – Kanjars, rifles etc. Unfortunately the silver price is through the roof at the moment so I didn’t buy any silver. But I did buy some Frankincense from Salalah and a brass frankincense burner.
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Dubai to Salalah
... about 11am we will be passing through into the Red Sea, on our way to Aqaba, Jordan. We have booked to go to Petra (the lost city) which is where Indiana Jones was filmed. We originally booked the Wadi Rum (which was a desert trip 4WD similar to what we had done in Dubai – but after seeing the presentation on Petra it looked amazing, and for the extra cost thought it was well worth doing). It is meant ...
Arabian Nights
... to the Souk to get a few things. When they got back Mary took me to the store on the dock, and we bought, you guessed it, frankincense, and more importantly, a couple of bottles of wine. Now which do you think is the most important?
Our last stop in Oman is Salalah before we slip into the Gulf of Aden, sneak past Yemen and Somalia, and enter the Red Sea.
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