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Oman Trip
Posted by: ynotoman, 5:40 AM GMT en Junio 26, 2007 +0
During mid to late June I drove down to Salalah from Muscat and back. Stopping at the Oryx reserve at Jalooni I was amazed that, like camels, the Oryx are born during the heat of summer http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/omannature.htm

The mountains around Salalah were exceptionally green for June as a result of the heavy rains in early May http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/salalahnizwamusandam.htm
In the wooded escarpment areas hundreds of caterpillars seemed to be bungee jumping from some trees onto the ground while the additional water seemed to have attracted a variety of Dragonflys.

On my journey back I drove up the east coast and overnighted in Ras al Hadd to watch the Green Turtles nest. The cyclone of early June lifted sand higher up the main nesting beaches which resulted in the females nesting much closer to each other than I have seen previously http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/omannature.htm

Along my journey I met a convoy of 4 Chinese Chana vehicles who were making a trip from China to South Africa to promote the durability of the brand http://www.chanatrax.co.za/imageGalleryFrame.cfm?id=179&start=6 . While I chatted with them at the petrol pump the attendant charged them with my fuel on top of theirs and it was only after a bit of head scratching that we managed to sort out what I owed them.

Fortunately the road network was either undamaged or mostly repaired along my route and I called into Sur http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/salalahnizwamusandam.htm. Here the contrast between the ability of robust modern buildings and older (pre 1970s) ones to withstand storm damage was clear. It was good to see the Dhow yard relatively unscathed especially as a new larger Dhow is under construction. Quite apart from rebuilding the infrastructure the Oman Government is also undertaking a compensation survey to enable private companies and families to recover quickly from the impact http://www.omanobserver.com

Arriving back into Muscat as the highways had been repaired I was able to call into my local supermarket to re-stock on milk and other essentials http://www.sultan-center.com/Default.aspx?pageId=20 . However since my vehicle was unwashed for some 2 weeks of travel my most important stop was the car wash to avoid adding to my Police fines for driving a dirty car.
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