March 25th:
Early this morning we arrived at Muscat. Oman is a country located east of Yemen, south of Saudi Arabia and the UAE and across the Golf of Oman from Iran.
This area of Oman is rocky and arid. In fact the entire country is arid. Their source of wealth is oil. They ship out 80,000,000 barrels of oil daily. The leader of the country is Sultan Oaboos bin Sa’id. He is a dictator but from appearances, he does not abuse Omanis. The areas of Muscat we toured were clean and well maintained. We were told education, medical care, and housing is either totally free or heavily subsidized by the government.
From the harbor several fort or fortifications were visible. One interesting structure was the incense burner that greeted our arrival.
We traveled into town and visited the Muttrah Souk (or market). We did a lot of looking but luckily for Wayne…no buying.
The ship departed early this afternoon to head for Dubai.
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