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Famous & Interesting Activities In Oman During Your Trip

Written by sheikh al zubairi

Topic: TravelPublished February 16, 2012
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The Sultanate of Oman is located on the South Eastern side of Arabian Peninsula spread on the area of about 300,000 square kilometer which stretches along the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf. Due to the unspoiled culture and traditional lifestyle, Oman holds many unique features due to which is has come up as one of the most popular tourism places. People every year plan a tour of Oman to watch amazing and exciting things like dolphin watching, desert safari and camel racing. Oman welcomes the tourists and lets them to return to their countries with many pleasing memories.

Watching the dolphins is a unique entertainment to do in Oman, especially for sea-creature lovers. Bottlenose dolphins are the most popular dolphins and they very large in size. Common dolphins in Oman are easily recognized and they include Saddle Back dolphins, Write Bellied Porpoise, Criss-cross dolphin, Hourglass dolphin, Cape dolphin and many more. All these dolphins give so much pleasure that people capture their fun in their cameras to keep them saved with them forever. These dolphins are with streamlined body, long slender beak, single blow whole, pointed flippers, hour-glass pattern on sides, dark flippers, tail and fin. These dolphins are arranged and trained in families in order to provide huge entertainment to their fans.

Tour of Oman is observed to be more exciting by exploring the whole locations of desert safari. When your tour begins across the desert plains, it will give you much pleasure and adventure and when your journey to Wahiba Sands starts, you will come across a romantic desert with rolling sand dunes. The area of this desert stretches as far as your eye can see. Since this is the traditional home of Bedouin, you may be invited to meet with a Bedouins family and can enjoy and see their traditional lifestyle as well. Wadi Bani Khalid will be your second destination after Wahiba Sands. This is one of the Largest and beautiful wadi in Oman where you will see the water support under the Falaj Irrigaton System. Wadi Shab is also a good choice to go and enjoy while continuing your Oman trip. Wadi Bani Khalid and turtle beach resort will also let you enjoy the traditional beauty of Oman. Among all these destinations, the most renowned Omani desert is Sharqiyah sands formerly known as Wahiba Sands.

Camel racing is one of the exciting and extraordinary sports in Oman which is organized with a large number of camels and their owners. Al Arabian camels are fully trained for appearing on the race track. Between months of September and June, the races are organized in Seeb which is the centre for this unique sport. The people in Oman feel proud in caring and raising their camels to make them compete at both national and international level .In the Royal places made in Seebs, the camels are allowed to stay. When you are in Oman, you really have so a lot of options to enjoy and make an ever-remembering trip in your life.

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Sheikh Al Zubari is an expert tourism consultant associated with Ministry of Tourism of Oman that specializes in Tourist Spots all over Sultanate of Oman, Camel racing. The experience of desert safari and dolphin watching in Oman is really special for me.

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