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The Best Travel Writing About Oman

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Articles about Oman

  • Oman's Musandam Peninsula | Fiona Dunlop | Oman | Muscat Region | Khasab
    "Blink and you could miss Khasab, the main town on the Musandam peninsula, a remote enclave of the Sultanate of Oman where sheer moutains tower over narrow inlets and blissful, deserted coves. Roads are a recent phenomenon here; access used to be by..."
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  • Muscat | Fiona Dunlop | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "Unknowingly, I arrive in Muscat just after National Day, November 18th. It is dark, or supposed to be, but it feels like I have landed in fairyland. The place is ablaze with lights: red, green and white, the colours of the Omani flag. Garlands of..."
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  • Ode to Oman | Michelle Jana Chan | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "This is the Arabia of Lawrence. A desert nation where I first began to understand why Omanis whisper the word water with reverence. But the first day on the road, it all seemed rather extreme. We drove hundreds of kilometres to reach..."
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  • South to Sur, home of the Dhow builders | Graham Simmons | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "The Middle East has acquired a sinister reputation lately. Saddam’s antics have been compounded by the insane acts of Hezbollah and right-wing Israeli terrorists, and the Bin Laden gang still appears to be hell-bent on creating havoc. To a casual..."
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  • Oman | John Hatt | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "In the late 1960s there was student unrest throughout Europe, even at Oxford where the Clarendon Building was occupied by a group of activists. Among them I remember a bearded orator haranguing his audience about Oman, a remote country apparently..."
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  • Shangri La Barr Al Jissa Resort | Harry Ring | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "Stretching out from the eastern side of Jissah bay into the dark blue Indian Ocean lie the three hotels that make up the Shangri La Barr al Jissah resort: Al Husn, Al Bandar and Al Waha. This is the latest and probably the biggest hotel complex..."
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  • Off-Road in Oman | Amar Grover | Oman | Muscat Region | Muscat
    "It was just as we began climbing in earnest up the shoulders of Jebel Akhdar, the ‘Green Mountain’, that the car’s owner said he could no longer drive. There was very little green, either, but rather great swirls of strata in a multitude of shades..."
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