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Muscat and Back to Dubai

Muscat and Back to Dubai

I got up early this morning and packed my bags at the Sheraton. I took a taxi from the hotel down to the Al Alam Palace in the new part of Muscat. There are a couple of forts down there, which you aren’t allowed to go into, but you can see from the coast. I walked through the area and took a look at the nice buildings down there, but couldn’t go into any of them. I walked back toward…

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Wadi Shab and Bimma Sinkhole

Wadi Shab and Bimma Sinkhole

Today was a great day of exploration! Danny met me at the hotel this morning and we had a car brought to us there. The company (NAB) brought the car, went over the details with us, and then we went on our way south. We hadn’t had breakfast yet so Danny found a small Coffee Shop (that was the actual name of the place) that was great! It was a small cafe kind of place on the side of the…

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Sunrise up high and on to Oman!

Sunrise up high and on to Oman!

Today was a busy day! I got up at 4:30am, quick shower, taxi from the hotel to the Dubai Mall (Fashion Avenue entrance) to get in the queue for the Burj Khalifa at sunrise. I got there around 5:20am and there were already at least 100 people in the queue, but once they started letting us in at 5:30am, it moved pretty quickly. It was just so strange that the entrance to this is inside the mall, which is, of…

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