Salalah, Oman

This is our second time in Salalah. In 2017 we had full day private tour that covered all major sites of the city. For today’s, I booked an adventure tour for four people. Our friends, Pat and Norm joined us on this tour. It’s their fourth visit to Salalah.

We had to take a shuttle out of the port and our green Jeep with a tour guide was waiting for us.
Our driver/tour guide was a pleasant young man with good English. We immediately felt very comfortable with him.

We started to drive west of the city toward Yemen. The plan was to see few waterfalls, unfortunately we were told the waterfalls are dry. Instead, we will see other sites.
We stopped at the few beautiful spots to take pictures and then we saw a big group of camels. We stopped and camels came right to our car. We had a chance to touch them. Such a cute animals. Very long eyelashes and gentle faces.

Then we stopped at Cave Marmeet and Blow Holes. It’s a popular tourist destination and the only place where we saw tourists. Our tour guide got us mangos and pomegranates for a little snack. Nice touch.
More driving and beautiful stops before we approached a checkout point. We were 60km from Yemen.
Our next destination was swimming, but before that, our guide stopped at the store to get us a snack. Ten minutes later he came out with three plates of food that were hot and smelled heavenly.

He got us famous Omani street food…Honey Cheese Fataya. Absolutely delicious.

We continue driving toward the promised beach stopping few times to take pictures.
Finally we arrive to a beautiful beach with no people. He parked the Jeep on Fazayat beach and Pat and I went swimming. The water was perfect temperature, silky white sand. Unfortunately, the wave were a little too strong for Boris to go swim.
After 15-20min in the water, we changed and back in the car.
By 2:30pm we arrived at the restaurant for lunch. We were not very hungry, but decided since the lunch was included in the price of the tour to eat local food.

Boris had fish and chips and said it was the best he ever had. I had stir fry with shrimp and it was also very good.
We returned to the ship very full and skipped the dinner.

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