On its way to China the Olympic Torch snaked its way through Muscat today – I parked my car just behind the roadblocks and joined the crowds.
Oman is the only Arab country where the torch will visit – therefore the government invited personalities from around the Arab world to share in the torch carrying.
It can’t have been a co-incidence that Tanzania with its historic connections to Oman was the only African nation to join in the relay.
The torch started its short journey at the Dhow ‘Sohar’ – which sailed between Muscat and Canton in 1980 and I saw the flame in the village of Al Takiyah near the palace.
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