We spent 14 days exploring Oman with a little rental car and a tent. In this post I’ll share all my top tips, how much we spent and the must see sights to see with a 2wd drive car. CAR RENTAL Firstly, the car, we booked through Discover Cars was £370 for 14 days including…
Category: Middle East
Nizwa’s goat market, wadis and mountain drives | Oman
Our final days in Oman had a mix of activities and the first of which was the Nizwa livestock market. It takes place every Friday and this tradition has been happening in the same location for hundreds of years. We had to arrive early to catch the action so we were joining the crowds at…
Oman’s dramatic mountains and a crazy night camping on them
It’s time to explore the mountains of Oman! We’ve been driving alongside dramatic peaks and I can’t help but feel if it was America for example there would be a parking lot with hiking trails, not with lots of infrastructure or paved paths, just rugged but accessible. Oman kinda feels so untouched that it’s like…
Date palms, mud brick houses, castles and dressing up as locals | Oman
The bad weather is finally behind us so we started driving towards the mountainous region of Oman, stopping first at a wadi for a hike along a very interesting route, following the village Falaj (irrigation system). It was basically a large concrete gutter with water gushing through the middle and a flat section on either…
Desert storms and flash floods | Wahiba Sands and Wadi Bani Khalid
It’s time for us to explore another wadi in Oman and this time we’re heading to Wadi Bani Khalid. It’s said to be a lot more developed than Wadi Shab but we were still excited to check it out. This time we didn’t arrive early in the morning, we just rocked up at 1ish which…
Camels and Turtles on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula
After exploring the stunning canyon that is Wadi Shab we continued south to Sur, a port town that was basking in sunshine when we arrived…which was a rare sight after so many overcast days. We took a stroll along the corniche and along the beach where the tide was out and it created some cool…
Exploring the Bimmah Sinkhole and Wadi Shab | Oman
We woke up surrounded by small sand dunes with the sun hitting the wind-swept ripples and our tent nestled beneath them. After some breakfast in the dunes we took the opportunity to pour some water over my hair and give it a wash which was well needed and then we hit the road towards Wadi…
Our first impressions of Oman | The start of our 14 day camping trip
After 9 months working in a hotel in the Lake District it’s finally time to hit the road again. Our original plan of doing a huge USA roadtrip were rudely demolished after Craig was denied his visa for no apparent reason. Which led us to going back to the drawing board and figuring out a…
A budget layover in Dubai
We couldn’t decide where to go after Georgia, some countries we wanted to visit were still closed to tourism due to covid, others were deemed unsafe to travel by our government website. So then we considered returning to Asia but it’s the rainy season for most of those countries. We scratched our heads for a…
The four day hike from Mestia to Ushguli | Georgia
Mestia sits in the Upper Svaneti region of Georgia and it’s a major hub for mountain hiking. We checked into a really nice guesthouse for just €12 a night with cooking facilities which was a relief as we’re fed up with Georgian food and rude service already. Mestia marks the start of the very popular…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 