ossessing the ‘patience of Job’ would not be a bad thing – as I twiddle my fingers waiting for the WiFi aboard ship to share these colourful moments with you. Yesterday, we visited the tomb of Job in the mountains outside Salalah on the southern coast of Oman. Our guide Mohamad related the story of …
OFF-ROAD 4WD TOURING DOWN IN THE GORGE OF WADI BANI AWF, IN OMAN I read about one of Oman’s quaint villages, Bilad Sayt, as “tranquil, with an antique old world appeal and its patchwork of terrace farming and traditional houses laid out against the rocky slopes”. But when we get to the top of a …
FRIDAY CATTLE MARKET AT NIZWA SOUK, IN OMAN We arrive at the Friday cattle market at the Nizwa souk to cacophony and colour and see robed Omani men standing in the centre of a small covered arena waiting for the procession of cows for them to bid on and buy. Others, sitting and watching, could …
ADVENTURE IN OMAN – ANCIENT, ARABIAN, BIBLICAL, SERENE Setting the scene for this exotica . . . up in the Al Hajar mountains of Oman. Located in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, , Jabal Akhdar “the Green Mountain” in Arabic, fits harmoniously into its natural habitat. un-block on, smelling freshly (and a little …
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA & SINBAD THE SAILOR BEAT ME HERE TO OMAN The Queen of Sheba was born here in Oman half a millennia before Christ. Here also is the port of the famous adventurer Sinbad the Sailor. Now, I sail on a modern motor vessel, ‘Silver Wind’ up the Straits of Hormuz (with …