QE2 in Muscat

The QE2 had visited Oman several times before her soon to be retirement in Dubai.

QE2 off Mutrah Oman
QE2 off Mutrah Oman

Here she sits outside the port near Muscat (she also visited Salalah in the south). Her blue hull, I have to say, was outshone by the immaculate blue of Britannia when she called into Muscat, the last time when Prince Charles and Princes Diana visited in 1987.

Author: Tony Walsh

Tony Walsh - author and tour leader through Arabia