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Beyond Green Travel with Costas Christ
Arabian Oasis: Oman
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 10, 2008
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Move over, Dubai—Oman's rugged riches are catching on. Text by Global Travel Editor Costas Christ; Photograph Courtesy of Six Senses Resorts and Spas Oman When I asked the late explorer Wilfred Thesiger how to retrace his 1949 route across Oman, he recommended setting out during the same month he did, in December. It was sound…
Beyond Green Travel with Costas Christ
Oman’s Road Less Traveled
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 28, 2008 American travelers’ current reluctance to travel to the Middle East, egged on by media hype about danger and Islamic fear-mongering, has left Oman almost entirely to the young Europeans now flocking there. Our loss is their big gain. I just spent seven days kayaking the along the Straights of Hormuz, some 20 miles from the…
