and down again to Al Hamra and Misfah

Today we descended from 2000m to 450m to visit Alhamra an one of the few villages with intact houses built of bricks made from mud and straw. As mentioned in a previous Blog, in the last 20 years Sultan Quaboos has used the income from oil to catapult Oman from the middle ages to modern times, among other building houses for omanis which has led to Omanis abandoning their villages and houses. Alhamra is such a ghost village with the beautifully made, wonderfully cool mud houses slowly collapsing.Read more