The fruit of Baobab Trees (seen below at the base of the mountains in Dhofar, Oman) has just been given EU approval to be used in smoothies and cereal bars.
Oman has probably around Continue reading “Baobab Trees in Oman”
Baobab Trees in Oman
Month: July 2008
Fire in Ruwi
Tucked away in the back streets of Ruwi are small alleys and roads –
today a fire broke out in that area and remarkably the large fire tenders arrived next to the building that was belching out toxic fumes.
Sand blasted arrival into Salalah
Throughout much of Oman the annual weather can be described as hot or scorching ; however on the southern coasts the summer monsoon, called locally the “Khareef”, brings changes.
As I drove down to Salalah from Muscat in early July the first hint of a change comes with what on the face of it might be a snowstorm Continue reading “Sand blasted arrival into Salalah”
Guno rebuilding progress and new CEO at Oman Air
The government will shortly start the building of 700 new homes for the residents in the Qurayyat area of Oman whose homes were devastated by the cyclone Guno and where portacabins were erected shortly after the cyclone last year .
The cost of many 10s of millions Continue reading “Guno rebuilding progress and new CEO at Oman Air”
Oman’s date harvest
For several weeks, the skies above Muscat have been a pale brown as we have been sitting under a dust haze. At times the entire country has been affected – on a drive of 1000 kilometres to Salalah a few weeks ago the tone of the sky hardly changed throughout the journey.
NASA (where I obtained the image from) has up-loaded the cause of Oman’s latest dust arrival Continue reading “Oman’s date harvest”
QE2 in Muscat
The QE2 had visited Oman several times before her soon to be retirement in Dubai.
Here she sits outside the port Continue reading “QE2 in Muscat”
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