Oman experience November 21, 2010
Posted by kieslinger in : Dubai , 2 commentsOver the recent Eid holidays we spent a few days in Oman. Very different experience from Dubai. Less shiny, less consumerism it seemed.
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Passing the border was a nightmare. We had to wait for about 5 hours in a line to get the Visa stamp into our passports. Probably because of the holiday season the line was extra long, but it was also extra slow!
But from then on the trip was very nice. People are friendly, the landscape is exciting, with lots of different formations of mountains, the dessert and the sea. The old part of Muscat is like a small village surrounded by mountains and the sea. You just stop directly in front of the Sultan’s palace and take a walk around. Not like a bustling capital at all. Not much traffic, not much going on in general.
Sometimes it felt like being in a small fishing village somewhere in Spain. Except, we missed the bars and cafes where you could sit outside and enjoy life by sipping a nice glass of wine.
On the way back to Dubai we stopped at Nizwa, one of the oldest city in Oman, and visited the castle there. Unfortunately it was on a Friday and again everything except the castle was closed. And we were lucky, because the castle is usually closed on Fridays we were told.
