Muscat, Oman

You have to take a shuttle from the ship to the port entry, where once you walk out the gates, you are immediately bombarded with taxi drivers offering to be your tour guide for the day. The price for an hour is normally 25 euros, but today only 20. "Good price for you." In hindsight sight, it probably was a good price compared to the price of everything else. Oman is expensive. We opted not to hire a driver. Choosing instead to walk for a bit. We went to the fort, and then to the souk (market). At the fort, we met a couple, John and Felicity, from Australia (not from the ship) and really hit it off. We decided to meet up later, and so we did. We walked along the waterfront towards a "palace." It was during Ramadan, so no restaurants were open. Luckily there was a grocery store, and I bought a bunch of bananas to tide us over.
We walked back to the port and said goodbye to our new friends. We tried to negotiate a ride to the Sultans mosque, but couldn't get an affordable price. It turns out it was closed anyway.
We exchanged our riyadh for dollars and euros with the taxi drivers and caught the shuttle back to the ship.Read more