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Silver Wind & Brilliance of the Seas in Muscat

Posted on December 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

While waiting for our guests to disembark I managed to get a few pictures of the Cruise Ships arriving into Muscat. The Silver Wind Continue reading →

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Visiting Muscat in 2012

Posted on November 18, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Oman and Muscat in particular seem to be collecting armfuls of accolades recently – the latest from Continue reading →

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Oman’s Bird Migration

Posted on November 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It was good to attend a conference on ‘Oman as a Gravitational Centre in the Global Flyway Network of Migratory Shorebirds’ ; which highlighted the importance of Oman’s coast for migratory birds in general and shorebirds in particular.  The mud flats at Barr Al Hikman where we recently visited with tourists are an internationally important place.

Jens Erikson was a key Continue reading →

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Oman’s Wadi Darbat WaterFalls

Posted on November 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We had a really interesting Oman tour through the Empty Quarter, Wahiba Sands and should have been camping in Hashman sand dunes but Badar decided that really a dry comfortable hotel would be safer for our clients. And so they arrived into Salalah just in time for

Oman Wadi Darbat Water Falls

Oman Wadi Darbat Water Falls

Wadi Darbat WaterFalls Oman November 2011 Click on Image or Link to open the Video

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Turtles and Lakes in Oman

Posted on November 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Following the rains we took our clients on a tour of Oman which included desert, coast, mountains and most importantly for them the Green Turtles of Oman.

Photographing Green Turtle Oman

Photographing Green Turtle Oman

Fortunately not only was the night visit successful as they saw a Turtle lay eggs but at dawn saw two Turtles return to the sea after laying.

Of course it wasn’t a surprise to find flooding on the route – Continue reading →

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Al Maha and Mangroves in Oman

Posted on October 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We were fortunate that on the route from Muscat to Salalah apart from seeing some of Omans great coastline,

A Beach stop in Oman

A Beach stop in Oman

we were able to include visits into some of Oman’s Mangroves for our clients. The trees are not only a great sanctuary for sea life but also birds.

Exploring Omans Mangroves

Exploring Omans Mangroves

Later Badar swung into Continue reading →

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