Otherwise know as, the country I fell in love with!
Chad has been telling me for a long time now that I would love Oman, and he was right on {almost} every level. The people. The smells. The culture. The most perfect sunsets and sunrises I have ever seen (yes, even more than the sunsets I adored all my years ago in New Zealand). The Juices (oh the juices) but above all, the warmth and generosity of the people is really what stole my heart (I know that is an incredibly cheesy thing to say, but it is quite literally true!
I have never experienced such genuine kindness from complete strangers. I can't imagine meeting someone in the streets of Australia, or many other countries for that matter, and taking them up on an offer to go home with them to meet their family and have lunch or to join them for tea. But in Oman, it seems quite the norm to receive such invitations.
You'll also see from the photos that camels really do roam free in the desert. We had to stop our car on more than one occasion because the road was blocked with camels. It seemed quite novel in the beginning, but we did get used to it :)
A very typical scene.......
Don't be too shocked by this next picture - apparently it was "not real" but still.......I was a bit surprised when I called this little boy and he turned around like this....
Goodbye great Sultan of Oman. We miss your birth place of Salalah and its magical juices and hope to be back again soon{ish}!
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9 comments:
Oh to be a national geography photographer ... don't you think?
Beautiful pictures and beautiful experiences :)
Wonderful lis! I can't wait to see and hear more of your tales x
love the photos! so beautiful. love those three teenage boys. too cute! theres just something about white, but I know I could never keep white clean...
Wow!! You make me want to go there! I'm just not that adventurous...Beautiful, Beautiful pics!
Your photos are National Geographic worthy! Love them! Tell us more!
I was thinking these could be sold to national geographic or something.....then I clicked here to leave a comment and WOW, a few people already beat me to that comment.
gorgeous Sis ;)
I love this post. I wish I could comment after each shot. They are amazing. I love the people photos that you got as well. That old man. Creepy gun kid. Smiling white robed boys. I really wanted to get the picture of the men sitting around in the circle while I was there but my zoom isn't that big and I didn't think I could manage it. Oh and that palm tree shot is stunning. And I love that you got a camel shot with a camel sign. Really great!!!
Your photo's are absolutely amazing!! More give me more!!
Felicity,
I am so stoked. I know I looked through these photos before,right after you first put them up on your blog, but I've been looking for a photo of the rock out in the surf with the seagulls ever since we got back home and I finally realized I didn't have on of it. (I sat on that rock most of the time while we were waiting for the boats to pick us up that last day at Khor Kharfot.) It's so small in all the other photos I've found it in that it's almost not worth having the photo -- but this!! Wow. I know it sounds silly to be so crazy about a photo of a rock and some surf and seagulls, but my thoughts as I sat on that rock and contemplated Sariah's feelings, especially, as they left Bountiful, were -- and still are really precious to me, so this really makes my day! Chrys
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