First of all sorry no pictures in this blog. I just recommend you follow me on Facebook or Instagram! It takes too long and I really wanted to post these amazing pictures but it's difficult from iPad and this blogging website....
Anyways....we just had the most amazing time in oman. Really, truly an amazing country. Oman has a lot of beautiful things - and it's sort of untouched so to speak. Few tourists but it's increasing overtime.
After nizwa we headed for sur. We stayed in sur for two nights and used this city as a gateway to visit the 'wadis'. Wadi means water literally and there were three we wanted to see. The first one was least interesting called wadi tiwi, small hike to visit (still beautiful). The second was called wadi Shab... Long hike and we actually didn't make it to the end. Sanna got stung by a bee, I was throwing up in the morning and the night before (food I think) and Sanna has a bad cold. We got maybe half way through and stopped for a swim in the fresh water and ventured back. The third one was the sink hole! Amazing!!! It was super easy to float in this and Sanna actually got this awesome picture of me floating in the water. It was so beautiful.
After sur we headed to our desert camp for Monday night. This camp was quite remote I should say. The drive was about 2 hours from sur and we arrived a little before noon. We got there with no wifi no cell service and absolutely nothing to do except stare at the beautiful reddish color sands and take in the desert warmth. We were greeted by the camp manager later and he brought us lunch from a local Yemen restaurant. We then talked, smoked some sheesha and then he took us to his family's place in the sands and then we visited his camels that he raises. Camel selfie! (See Facebook) anyways he did inform me after I questioned him that there are no such things as wild camels. Interesting.
Our guide or tour host was so informative, he was about my age and just was able to answer so many questions that we had for him. Everything from marriage, dating, clothing attire, smoking, drinking, religion etc. his English was really good which helped and we didn't find too much of that in Oman.
I sit now in Beirut! Hear no ISIS see no ISIS. More to come.....
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