Wahiba Sands

One has not visited Oman if one has not been to the desert, especially since 82% of Oman's areal consists of desert. We had planned this trip for several weekends but only this weekend made it real. Andres had read some theory at home about driving in the desert, we had also bought a rope (to be ready for the worse: to get stuck in the sand) and we hit the road. After 3 hours from Muscat (because we took an inland road, it had been faster to drive the coastal road to Sur; next time we know) we were in Wahiba Sands.

This is how it started, desert right ahead of us:

The locals were practicing driving on the sand dunes, we were not brave enough to try it:

Camel's footsteps on the sand:

Wrong way but beautiful views:

Fun in the sand (but it was hot-hot-hot, so shoes had to be on all the time):

We also met some locals :):

When we had driven and looked around for some hours we decided it was time to say good-bye to the desert for this time (to come back next time and maybe do some more adventurous things there) and we headed near to Wadi Bani Khalid to have picnic by the pools and relax.

 It was already dark when we left the wadi and we spotted a scorpion on the wall: