oman-2023

We already know the airport in Istanbul, they change our departure gate, so for a while there is different information at the airport and different in the application, we sit...

On the last Omani morning, we have breakfast with a view of the goats in the rock face opposite the tent. We walk back to the main road and after a while we stop at Bimmah hole,...

The children go to take a quick bath, the discovery of small honeydews gets them out of the water. We go to the port city of Sur, where the traditional manufacture of wooden...

In the morning, the children and Ota go swimming in the sea, although our house is in the first row on the beach, but it is 1/2 km to the sea. As part of the acceleration, they...

In the morning, a camel came to see us, he was more curious than us and again he had more courage than me. He stared at us long enough and wandered around. Meanwhile, the sun...

First stop today is the abandoned village of Manizifat near the town of Ibra, we are here early so we have it to ourselves. The inhabitants left the village after 1990, when...

In the morning we observe flamingos on the lagoon through binoculars from the tent. When packing, the children compete with Ota, who will fold the tent first, so we are packed...

We get up at 7 a.m. and it's still a pleasant temperature, yesterday we skipped dinner after a late lunch, so we cook a proper breakfast - oatmeal. We identified yesterday's...

It is terribly hot in the morning, the car gives us shade for a while, but then there is nowhere to hide. The children go swimming, first with Ota and then with me, they have...

Check out is at 1 p.m., so we still use the morning to dry the car and carefully repack before the next trip. We are going to the mountains to the viewpoint of Jabal Samhan. The...

We decided to extend our stay by one night, we leave the children in the apartment in the morning and we go to see the city with Ota. Unfortunately, it's Friday, so everything...

We need a little freer day, on the one hand we made sure that water spilled in our suitcase yesterday, so we have to dry and on the other hand we owe the children a longer stay...

Today we have a big trip to the Yemeni border, we drive past the beautiful Mughsail beach and climb the mountains, the road here is in perfect condition, but we overcome a big...

After the previous days, when we moved a lot, the plan is not to go anywhere far. We are in no rush in the morning, the children finish school, diaries and read. In the...

In the morning, we are again drawn by the penetrating light from the tent, the children are already playing in the sand again. We pack and try to have breakfast, but a cloud of...

When the sun rises in the desert, the light drives you out of the tent before the heat, it was around 20 degrees at night, so it was pleasantly cool. Children use the ubiquitous...

I wake up around 5 o'clock in the morning, there is a beautiful starry sky above the river, and the Big Dipper, which we search for in vain in the evening, is standing on the...

There is a cattle market in Nizwa in the morning, so we get up at 6am. We are in Nizwa after eight o'clock, goats and cows are being led around at the goat market, interested...

We have big plans today, but in the morning I'm still playing with the laundry, so we're not the fastest. We go to the village of Misfat al Abryieen. First, we walk through the...

Today the plan is the Balcony walk, a path high in the wall above Wadi Nakhr, which is below Oman's highest mountain, Jabal Ash Sham (Mountain of the Sun). It's better to be...

In the morning there is pleasant shade between the mountains, we pack and at 9 a.m. when we leave there is no sun. We scramble up the hills and stop every now and then to look...

The morning is beautiful again, I wash a few things in the washing machine and the children bathe, so we don't leave until around 11 a.m. We are headed to Wadi Bani Awf, which...

12.11. We wake up at seven and take pictures of the panoramas and the sunrise, after a while our acquaintance from the night passes us back and invites us for coffee, we pack...

We are being woken up by the goats, or more precisely, the children have found out that goats have taken over our campsite and are taking turns to inform us about it. Finally we...

In the morning we still bathe and pack, on the beach we meet a local diver who offers us a huge shell as big as a plate, he fished it from a depth of 10 meters and looked for...

Around 6 a.m. the rain wakes us up, exactly according to the forecast, so we are not surprised, we just close the tents. But it's quite windy, so I can't sleep, after a while it...

We planned until the night, so we wake up before nine, that was not planned. We leave the children alone to do their homework and we have to finish the cooking bomb, rubber...

What gets us out of bed is the fact that at 8:15 a guy from the rental company is supposed to come to change the car for us. Also, the mosque that we saw at night from outside...

We've all dropped out for varying amounts of time, we get out around 4am (it's 1am here) and we're quite awake. We buy an Omani SIM card and agree with the guy to bring us the...

At 11 o'clock we leave for Ruzyna. No one remembers that they forgot something important, maybe just that I forgot to harvest pumpkins, so I'm writing a request to Zuzka. We...