"The Wadi Sahtan " Oman Off The Beaten Path Tip by Geoff_Wright

The Wadi Sahtan has some spectacular views. The picture here is of a damaged building beneath the towering Jabal Sham. Note the clouds over the top of the building. I wonder if by now it has been renovated, like so many of the wonderful old buildings? The slide is nearly 25 years old, but I well remember taking the picture

One of many memories that I have is of eating tinned peaches on a mountain! A group of about 4 of us regularly went out into the interior on Thursdays and Fridays. We would load up the LandRover and, armed only with an old map (which I still have!) would head out into the wilderness. One such time we were walking through some quite rough terrain, and realised that we were actually in someone's garden area! There were no buildings here, just two brothers living in a cave in the mountainside. Before we could depart from our intrusion onto their property, they came out and welcomed us, as is the custom, of course! After the usual 'Salaams' and so on, one brother went away, and returned with some dates on a silver platter. A discussion between the two of them resulted in the other brother going away, and returning with two tins of peaches, which were shared out amongst us all. We assumed that they had been saving these peaches for a special occasion, and our 'intrusion' was this special day. This was, and no doubt still is, a typical Omani 'welcome'