It's hot, but we do not want to stay and sunbathe at the hotel pool with loud music and laud Italians We're going on the last tour – sightseeing the  surrounding sof Salalah. Several defense forts (in various state of preservation), an Arabic cemetery where the graves of men have three large stone...

Secluded beaches and camels

We're going searching secluded beaches. We encounter grazing camels, and after returning we find them again in a local camp where these animals come to spend the night. Probably, to drink water and to get milked (!).

To Salalah

We take goodbyeto beautiful Muscat. The cars are left  in a parking lot, and we, six of us, fly with  Oman Air 1000 km south to Salalah; to be precise to a resort called  "Fanrar" - 30 km east of the airport. From the air you can see that it was a desert. A huge desert. It has been conquered by d...

Muscat - flashes of the city's life

Muscat is a beautiful and surprisingly modern metropolis not losing anything of the charm of an Arab town... It has a vibe of a big capital. The historical museum, somewhat modest in its content, however, shows that since 1970 (the reign of Sultan Qaboos), the city has changed immensely and has bec...

The Sultan’s palace "Al Alam" and the government quarter

The Sultan’s palace "Al Alam" means "The Flag" in Arabic.  The palace, one of six royal residences of the ruling monarch, Sultan Qaboos, has a history of over 200 years, built by Imam Sultan bin Ahmed the 7th direct grandfather of the current Sultan. The existing palace, which has a facade of gold ...

Sultan Qaboos Mosque (Grand Mosque)

Sultan Qaboos Mosque is the largest temple in Oman. The construction began in 1995 at the behest of Sultan Qaboos. It lasted six years; the solemn dedication of the mosque took place at the thirtieth anniversary of the rule of the ruler. Fit there may as many as 20 thousand people, including 6.5 th...

In Muscat for a while at night

We arrived in the capital late in the evening, but we could not deny ourselves  the pleasure of walking along the boulevard, the Corniche. At the beginning we encountered a problem with the parking  payment as it is payable until 9pm. There’s one way of the  payment via phone text, but you have to...

A sinkhole Hawaiyat Najm

There was one more thing worth seeing on our way to Muscat: "Bimmah Sinkhole (Arabic Hawaiyat Najm) is a water-filled depression, structurally a sinkhole, in the limestone. A lake of turquoise waters, it is 50 m by 70 m wide and approximately 20 m deep. It is only about 600 m away from the sea, cl...