A great tour of the Qaboos Sultanate.. Trip to Oman

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if you want to see photos or learn more visit my site too:<br />www.born2travel.it<br /><br />After six hours by bus from Dubai reach the Omani capital!<br />The border controls have been very stressful! I am a bit 'scared when they started to check every single bag from my backpack ... I was afraid that comes out of some of my camouflage uniform and knows how they would take them ... I've always Arabs!<br /><br /><br />Moss (Oman) 26/10/2009<br /><br />Intense morning of the many travel agencies moss.<br />We shot a lot and the nice thing is that we have not resolved anything.<br />The tourism here is almost nonexistent.<br />When asked if offering travel packages to visit the area or that staring at us as if we had asked for a pound of ham in a jewelry store!<br />Oman, morphologically, appears to be very similar to Jordan, where instead Tourism is booming because the Omani ... can not organized?<br /><br />I said, a whole morning "spent" but lost it when traveling is fun chat, haggle with the locals, but to arrange a tour when the solution was under our nose ...<br />Faisal know in the hotel which will be our trump card as well as a great friend throughout their stay in Oman!<br /><br /><br />Moss (Oman) 27/10/2009<br /><br />[Nick]: "The souq of Mutrah is very distinctive and true ...<br />It 'made of small squares and alleys where they call you all to show their wares, the smell of incense fills the souq is ...<br />Satisfied eat two "shwarma" with the usual orange juice freshly squeezed along the Corniche ...<br /><br />Mark can even organize a soccer game with local boys just met! "<br /><br />We return to the souq to buy a pair of shoes for tomorrow's game! The trip begins to take shape!<br /><br /><br />Moss (Oman) 10/28/2009<br /><br />In the afternoon the "field"! Everyone, absolutely everyone ... we were about forty in all! A game without rules, without fail, and goalkeepers side, but playing in a quarry, with the mosque opposite (type church in the suburbs) has paid off big time!<br /><br />In the evening with legendary Faisal and after wearing "dishdasha" and "Kuma" We did a ride in shopping centers like never before immersing in the atmosphere while our Arab friends to us the "techniques of collision" of the girls in Oman ...<br />From the game looks (when they have the face completely covered), until she makes you nod poterti approach to exchange mobile numbers and then you disappear ... or the most mischievous technique of sitting in a large mall and activating the phone's Bluetooth watch if some other girl was connected and available to chat via phone ... What stress!<br /><br />"But when you get married? How does it work? "Well, in that case, as happened to him, sisters or mother is unleashed and you submit to the vision of many pictures of potential suitors ... so you can choose (assume that your wife has no voice in the matter!)<br /><br /><br /><strong>Ibrastrong> (Oman) 10/29/2009<br /><br />You start to discover Oman!<br />[Nick]: "The first stop is at <strong>Hawyat Najemstrong>, a hole that seems to have been formed by the impact of a meteorite.<br />Second step is to <strong>Wadi Shabstrong>. As I understand it, these wadis are oases formed by lakes, small streams and waterfalls that are followed by natural km inside the canyon ...<br />We decide not to stop in nearby <strong>Wadi Tiwistrong> after trekking in the beautiful wadi above, we head for <strong>Surstrong>, a fishing village where we visit a little factory crafted dhows (traditional boats) fully assembled by hand, cut the logs all'imbullonatura etc..<br />This is truly mass tourism has not arrived, all the way we've never met a seller of souvenirs ...<br />Inside the castle <strong>Sunaysilahstrong> do a foreman at the ancient stone door jamb of smashing your head! What a pain!<br />The day is still long. After eating roast chicken with your hands (Oman manner) leads us to <strong>Wadi Bani Khalidstrong>. Wadi interesting for the background of palm trees in the mountains.<br />It 's almost sunset. Let us quickly reach and its desert Bidiya Wahiba Sands with its fine sand and red ... "<br /><br />What remains of this beautiful day lived so intensely, even in traditional dress ...<br />Surely the beautiful sunset in the desert ... It might sound like the usual tourist thing but I doubt many people have it ... Three sultans lived like us white ... white silence broken only by the cries of the camels around us and a plastic bag carried by the wind ... The light of a half moon shone dimly us and our thoughts ... Who thought of the work people like me, it would be nice to live always with a backpack, a camera to collapse, a diary in the pocket of the shorts tactical and the urge to run, explore and discover new things each time ...<br /><br /><br /><strong>Nizwastrong> (Oman) 30/10/2009<br /><br />[Nick]: "A visit to the <strong>Nizwastrong> souq and its strong. Nothing that a comparison of our Mutrah! The strong but I really liked, we have also infiltrated a typical dance.<br />Last stop is the Hoova Cave, discovered by chance a few years ago ...<br />Visit interesting but more typical was the typical lunch sitting in a room with carpets and cushions, a platter of rice, chicken, camel, and by all to eat with your hands off the same plate ... "<br /><br />Returning to <strong>Muscatestrong>, Faisal wants us to know a bit 'of his friends and relatives had become midnight ... Although we are all at home of his cousin to attend football matches in the Italian championship ... No matter the time zone for their football is a sacred thing!<br /><br /><br />Moss (Oman) 10/31/2009<br /><br />Here in Oman, I had the same feeling of Belgrade ... I remember the same fear experienced as we reached the Serbian capital and the same feel so comfortable and protected anywhere soon ...<br /><br />Today coming back to the hotel after checking the mail usual internet point, a muezzin from the minaret threw his litany, surrounded by things I was walking Arabic blessed, I felt more and more a world citizen ...<br /><br />Courtesy, hospitality, good manners, education, generosity of all Omanis do not forget easily!<br /><br />Oman: the place where the goods leave the merchants to sell out to his shop after closing "so no one touch anything!" The place where the taxi driver, after you have paid and will call you to go away because you left the phone in his car, the place where the restaurant calls you back because you paid with a note that a 5 riyal in place and you stand to go ... The place where there are those who offer you a drink, who appears giving you the "welcome" instead of saying his name ... This is Oman, which will always carry in my heart.<br /><br />We never stop ... We are already planning the next move in Bahrain! Mythical team work with Nick. Internet Point, on two different computers in 5 minutes we held two days of shouting at the next destination information such as stock Mibtel ... I control the activities to do or things to see him there while, in parallel, check the closest hotels areas that the indicators I ... A few minutes after we found the right hotel and booked well! Legendary!<br /><br />continues on [www.born2travel.it]