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Oman - Unknown Land Tour Rating: Pioneer Day 1 – UK to Muscat Fly London to Muscat. On arrival meet and greet, transfer to your hotel. Overnight Golden Tulip Hotel Day 2 - Muscat – Hajar mountains - Nizwa After breakfast, we visit the impressive Qaboos Mosque before departing with our 4WD cars and heading to the Hajar Mountains. The road winds up to a 2,000 meter pass through coloured mountains with fantastic views of far away valleys and deep gorges. We will stop for a picnic lunch before completing our crossing of the mountains and reaching of village of Al Hamra. The old quarter of Al Hamra, close to gardens with thousands of palm trees, has narrow streets that wind through buildings of clay. We then continue the short distance to the town of Nizwa Dinner and overnight at Falaj Daris Hotel Day 3 - Nizwa – Ibra - Wahiba Sands desert The first part of the morning will be spent visiting the souk and the the old Fort, from the top of which we will have a splendid view of the surrounding area, with palm trees and mountains. A late morning departure will take us east towards the town of Al Minitirib and the Wahiba Sands desert. Dinner and overnight in tents on the dunes. Day 4 - Wahiba Sands desert After breakfast we will set out across the Wahiba Sands desert where the dunes will become higher and higher. We will find some much needed shade for our picnic lunch before ending the day in time to set our overnight camp. Camp at the foot of huge dunes under thousands of stars Day 5 - Wahiba Sands - Al Khaluf gulf We head towards the ocean and as we draw close to it we will come across a few settlements of the Wahiba Nomads where women wear black mask “burqas”. Once we reach the coast we will travel alongside an enormous salt lagoon, until we reach the beach. From there, we will continue our drive just meters from the ocean waves, before arriving at Al Khaluf Gulf where white dunes flow to the water. Camp among the dunes and dinner Day 6 - Al Khaluf – Wahiba coast Heading north along the beach, we will pass small fishing villages where we can stop to observe the fishermen at work. We drive along the coast on the white beach, with the Wahiba Desert on our left hand side. This day is a mixture of beach and desert and there will be stops so we can swim in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, as well as climbing amazing sand dunes. Overnight camp Day 7 - Wahiba coast - Ras El Hadd We will reach one of the main attractions of our expedition; enormous dunes that seem to roll into the ocean. To continue north we must drive over this sea of sand with its constant, magnificent views of the ocean. We will follow the beach and the landscape will be ever-changing: dunes, sandstone cliffs, rocky promontories, fishing villages and thousand of birds that fly off as the cars pass by. At the village of Al Askharah we will leave the beach for the paved road to Ras El Hadd. We spend the night at a lovely little hotel on a quiet bay. After dinner, a visit to the National Park a few kilometres from the hotel to watch the Green Turtles as they crawl up the beach from the ocean to lay their eggs in the sand. The best season for this is from August to November, but it is still possible to witness this extraordinary event during other months of the year. Overnight Turtle Beach Resort Hotel Day 8 - Ras El Hadd - Sur – Muscat A lovely mountain track will take us to Sur, an attractive town located around a beautiful bay. We will take in a visit to its dhow shipyard before following the road north where we will stop for a brief visit to the Qalhat Ruins, an ancient 2nd century city which is known to have been visited by Marco Polo. Further on we come to Tiwi, a small fishing village with a lush green canyon and white sand beaches where we can go for a swim and have a picnic. Afternoon arrival in Muscat, with time to see the Sultan’s Palace and the interesting souk. Drop off at your Muscat hotel Overnight Sheraton Ruwi, Radisson SAS or Al Falaj Hotel Day 9 – Muscat to UK Transfer from the hotel to the airport for your flight home, arriving the same day or early the next morning Top of page>> |
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