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- One Week to GoWith only one week to go before I fly out of Muscat I thought it would be wise to test out how to use this blog setup and it seems it has no spell check so no complaints from those Posted by Tony's Travels in Just Three Letters - U S A | Jan 24, 2012
- Oman Diving Trip**Please note if you are struggling to see our landscape photos you can click on photography to the right and can see them better. Wednesday we skipped on over to Oman as you do for a fantastic boat ride and oh Posted by drBrooky in Central/South America | May 1, 2011
- RisteilemässäRisteiltiin viikko Persianlahden suunnilla (kts. kartta) Mahtavan rentoututtavan viikon eri tunnelmia on haastava kuvailla: Kitchahtavasti sisustettu, mutta varsin hieno laiva täynnä italialaisia tuo oman näkökulmansa asiaan. Oman Posted by vilmalotta in Levoton sielu | Apr 27, 2011
- 2011 - My Tiki Tour (Part 5 - Sur, Oman) Thursday 24 February – Muscat to Sur on the new road via Qurayat. The scenery on this new road is great, lots of mountains, wadis, villages and so on. Arrived at about 6:00pm. E Posted by nzhamsta in Glynn's travel blog | Feb 27, 2011
- 2011 - My Tiki Tour (Part 4 - Muscat, Oman) Monday 21 February - An early start for the bus from Dubai to Muscat in Oman. It was an empty bus with only four passengers, an Omani businessman, an Indian guest worker who had b Posted by nzhamsta in Glynn's travel blog | Feb 23, 2011
- Salalah, OmanSalalah is the second largest town in the Sultanate of Oman is known as the “perfume capital of Arabia”. A group of 3 ladies and myself organised a private tour of the region in a modern air conditioned 4WD to Posted by dpedler in MV Discovery - 2009 | Aug 22, 2010
- Muscat, OmanToday the ship arrived in Muscat, the capital of Oman. The first thing that hits you as the ship nears the port is the striking volcanic mountains and the huge incense burner on the side of the port’s entrance (in Posted by dpedler in MV Discovery - 2009 | Aug 22, 2010
- Day 3 I am not entirely sure what day it is, but it is our first morning in Muscat. I feel tired and confuse, but happy to finally be here. Even though I am sure that I Posted by SarahMay86 in Oman | Dec 21, 2006
- Day 1(The following is-mostly-taken from my journal that I wrote on the trip) Posted by SarahMay86 in Oman | Dec 19, 2006
- Discovering OmanIt was about the time that I stepped off the plane that I realised that this was a completely different kettle of fish to the trips we had done previously. It was late June and even at 8:30am, the immense Posted by bruiserfen in "And I took the road less traveled" | Aug 19, 2007
- When it rains, it poursDon't know if that metaphor is particularly applicable over here, but whatev. I've been a bit bombarded with stuff lately, so I'm trying to catch up on the entries. I've got a lot of stuff this week. Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Apr 28, 2007
- The home stretch...It's hard to imagine that I only have 18 more days left in Oman. As we are finishing up over here, everyone in the group has been looking back. Our days in Mutrah seem like a year and Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Apr 28, 2007
- Going to Yemen?Hot of the press. I just got my letter for the Yemen study abroad program for the summer. Not good, not bad, I'm an alternate. The good news is I survive to fight another day, the bad Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Apr 23, 2007
- UpdatesSorry for the total lack of updates recently/ We're now in ISP period, where we don't have official classes every day, and we're just working on our research projects. The thing is, it's getting up to 105 on Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Apr 21, 2007
- Back in MuscatSorry about the delays in posting, the traveling eventually caught up with me. Abu Dhabi was interesting, but pretty tame after being in Dubai. We visited a girls university, interestingly enough. The director is an American from Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Apr 15, 2007
- NizwaSo it might be even longer in between posts the next few weeks. The fact that this is going up is do in no small part to the ridiculous addicition I have with the Internet. The lack of Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 26, 2007
- It's raining, it's pouringSo forget what I said the other day about why stuff shuts down for rain. Driving through the city today, the storm caused some serious damage. It wiped out part of the road in front of the airport, Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 19, 2007
- Cliff jumping in SurThis past weekend we went to the eastern part of Oman, and it might have been one of the craziest, but most fulfilling, weekends of my life. We went toured a bunch of wadi’s deep in mountain ravines, watched Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 18, 2007
- You know you live in a desert when…… school gets called off because of rain. I woke up today to… thunder? Muscat gets about a sum total of 5 inches of rain every year, and we got about 4 of them today. It was, Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 18, 2007
- ShakiraThe utter fascination that everyone in the Middle East has with Shakira warrants a brief mention. She is half Lebanese (I think on her mother's side), and consequently, this is the closest thing to someone from the Middle East Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 10, 2007
- Dick Cheney likes the Al BustanI went to dinner at the Grand Hyatt last night to hear a lecture with Dr. Salim, who is more or less the patron of the SIT program here. He gave the lecture pretty much just for SIT, including Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 10, 2007
- SIT’s Tower of BabelLanguages that I frequently encounter in Oman: English (duh) Arabic (really duh) Swahili (from almost all of the homestay family and relatives) German (from Sultan, his wife, Galla, and the random Germans that are everywhere) Spanish (from Sabrina an Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Feb 28, 2007
- A Brit 'baller and an Omani CowboyWhen reading Theroux, I would often wonder how he could just happen to run into all these crazy people as he travels all over the various continents. Well, now I realize that it’s really just a matter of putting Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 2, 2007
- More fun on the diplo circuit forthcomingApparently I’ve just started to dip my toes into the diplomatic circuit. I’m going to be meeting with the head of the economic section of the American embassy fairly soon (insh’allah), and probably also the American ambassador, Gary Grappo. Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Mar 2, 2007
- Fun times with the Royal Omani PoliceI came to Oman because I wanted to really get to know the Middle East and Oman. Well, when I found myself being questioned by the police in a police station, I knew that I was REALLY getting to Posted by mc327503 in Rock the Casbah 2007 | Feb 20, 2007
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