Cliffs and Heights and Night, Oh My!

After one of the coolest things I have ever done in my life, I did one of the scariest. After duning, we headed up towards the city of Nizwa in order to make our way to Jebel Shams, where we would be staying for the night. Jebel Shams, the highest mountain in Oman, is often called the "Grand Canyon of the Middle East." Read More...

A Love Affair Continues

When Terrey and I met with Sara, the woman who lived in Muscat and took us to dinner, she insisted that we could not drive through Oman and not go dune bashing. She also insisted that we need to meet up with "her bedouin" and that he would take us out, no problem. So, after this exchange, we found ourselves waiting for a man named Bader to meet us at an Al Maha gas station outside the village of Biddiyah. Not quite sure what to expect, we waited anxiously. Read More...

A Land of Randoms

After living in the land of perpetual heat, sand, and construction cranes, I have not been surprised in a while. After driving through Oman for a week, I had my fair share of strange and random happenings. Qatar is fully a desert from what I have witnessed with not much variety. In Oman, we would be driving through beautiful red mountains and in the next minute, they were brown, and then, there would be steps built right into the side. What? Read More...

Out Of Doha And Off To Oman

As my first school break was fast approaching, the question I asked myself was this: Where to go??? Doha is a great jumping point to a multitude of places and the only issue was picking where. I had a whole week to explore somewhere new, so the decision was hard. Turkey? Sri Lanka? Hogwarts? As the last was not an option, a friend and I chose to spend a week exploring the country of Oman. Read More...