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22:30 20-09-2013

Andreas

Hi Jan,

I like your Homepage. It is very interesting to read all the reports and see the amazing pictures. Can you give me an advice? I´m searching for a possibility to rent a 4x4 for an offroad trip from Muskat to Salalah and back.

Best wishes

Geantwoord op: 23:35 20-09-2013

You don't need a 4WD to drive to Salalah and back. Normal car is a lot cheaper. 1000km drive one way. If you intend to go offroad, don't do it on your own. You can find rental cars in Oman on the internet. I preferred Shuram company, because they maintain their cars well and have double spare tyres.
http://shuramgroup.com/index_tourism.html

08:27 15-03-2013

Gwe

Hi Jan
thank you for your feedback
kind regards
Gwen

11:23 14-03-2013

Gwen Heyns

Hi Jan
is is safe for 2 females to travel Oman? Are there any cheap rooms to hire in Muscat.
We will be travelling from South Africa and our Rands/money wittles down to nothing when we travel abroad. Also would like to do the wadi at Tiwi...but the 1 day tours are very expensive for us South Africans.....do you have any local knowledge on local tour guides. thank you kind regards

Geantwoord op: 19:34 14-03-2013

Female travelling is fine in Oman. People are friendly if they are treated with respect. For cheap hotels you have to search in Google a bit, but I would not recommend the bottom of the range. Oman is not backpackers country and if you are on a tight budget and depend on others it will not be easy. Tiwi is very touristic and requires a car to get there. A guide and car are never cheap. Better hire a car and drive yourself to nice places, most of which are easy to get to. Low budget can spoil the holiday fun.

09:21 15-01-2013

Zain Al Tauqi

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Zain Al Tauqi, I'm a reporter with the Muscat Daily newspaper. I came across your very interesting descriptions and photographs of Hasa bin Sult. I believe you wrote it in 2009. The figures are very clear in your phogogaphs. After reading your travel page, I went to take a look last year. It wasn't very clear, but I could see the figures. Last weekend, I went back to Hasa bin Sult, and the figures were almost completely gone...you really had to use your imagination to see anything. I'd really like to write a story about this, as it's interesting that something that lasted over 1400 years (minimum) almost disappears in four years...please get in touch with me as I really need your help to put together a story.

Regards,
Zain Al Tauqi
Muscat Daily
+92903560

Geantwoord op: 18:40 15-01-2013

Dear Zain, I will be happy to help and will send you my e-mail seperately. Seeing the figures has a lot to do with the light. I hope you have seen the additional information I included on the old figures and I could get you in touch with an archeologist. Will send you private e-mail.
Greetings
Jan

17:34 28-12-2012

Ronald

Hello Jan,
we will visit Oman in next March and (besides nature generally) we are interested in Geology and Minerals, too. As I've read, you visited as well the old copper mines.
Did you manage to visit the exiting mines, like the Aarja Mine? Do you know, if this is possible?

Thank you for our interesting home page.

Kind regards,
Ronald

Geantwoord op: 18:29 02-01-2013

Yes, we have visited the copper mines (open cast type), but you would need to get in touch with the company. My contacts are probably not there anymore. The old mines have a lot to see. I wonder whether you found my fieldguide covering that area? http://sites.google.com/site/liljanschreurs/Home/wadi-jizzi-geological-excursion

Greetings

Jan

06:20 04-11-2012

Joana

Dear Jan,

I write this email just to say a big Thanks! Your web site along with explorer guides have been our bible in Oman. We have been all over Muscat and your tips are still updated and very very useful.

we can't thank you enough! - Joana & Paulo from Portugal

Geantwoord op: 12:36 04-11-2012

Thank you. Such comments after 2 years out of Oman are nice and awaken fond memories.
Jan

21:32 14-10-2012

Lenka Bartels

Hi Jan,
this year will be our third visit of Oman. We really like this country and its inhabitants! We have been inspired by your pages - they are very informative and nicely done. This time we hope to be able to see also some of the Huqf area and possibly also travel along the new coastal road up to Salalah (the geology between Qanawt and Hasik must be very special).
- Since we will have a 4x4 but will be driving alone - do you think we can visit e.g. Qarn Mahatta (or Wadi Baw with the graveyard) safely or would you recommend us to try to find an Omani with a car to drive with us or bring us there?
- Another thing would be the track in the Huqf are to see the rudist reef, "stone age flint", pinackle etc. Perhaps there is a new approach possible from the the cross road (Muhut - al Hayma)?
-The last question: we saw already Qarat Kibrit , is it worth driving to Qarn al Sahmah salt dome?
Thank you very much for your reply! Should you ever come to southern Germany we would be glad to help you as well - Lenka

Geantwoord op: 18:52 15-10-2012

Although real offroad becomes easier with new roads every year the desert remains a place to be careful, see http://home.kpn.nl/~lilian_jan_schreurs/oman/GetPrepared.htm . I would never advise anybody to travel alone offroad. The sites you are asking for in the Huqf are rather sensitive and that's the reason I do not distribute coordinates freely. Hope you understand. Qarn Sahmah is a nice place, yes another salt dome, but special on its own because of its very size (big).

13:07 10-09-2012

TB

Hi Jan,
awesome website! I saw that you visited the Oman between September and October. We'll leave in a week. Can you tell me what temperatures you had a night? (via email please) We're going to camp and I don't know which sleeping bag to take...
Thanks
TB

Geantwoord op: 19:49 10-09-2012

Depending on whether you sleep under the sky or in a tent, in mountains or in the desert plains. If outside it could be windy, but not cold at all (except above 2000m in mountains). Something rather thin. We often used a loose blanket if it got a bit colder, but that would be Nov-Dec-Jan, or up in the mountains

15:45 20-08-2012

Antonio

hi Jan,
thanks a lot for sharing your information. it's really precious.

I hope you will have some time to help me.

I'll be going to Oman next December 2012 for around 10 days. I'd like, if possible, some advice about what's doable in terms of Wadi/treck considering that my 3 years old son will be with me.

My idea is to make base in Muscat (for scuba diving) and in a couple of other locations like maybe Nizwa and one desert camp and have some day trip from there since I cannot drive long and exstenuating hours with him in the car.

Any advice in terms doable wadis, good desert camp, desert guides?

thanks a lot

Geantwoord op: 20:36 20-08-2012

Hi Antonio,
10 days should allow quite a bit from Muscat. Nizwa is approx 2 hrs driving, and in same time you could also get up on Jabal Akhdar where there are two hotels now to stay. To get into one of the Oman Mountain wadis you also face a few hours of driving before you get there. For desert camp you can't escape a long drive to the Wahiba (Al Sharqia) sands. That is at least half-day away. Remember that Oman is a desert country, but that does not mean that a 'classical sand desert is around the corner. Most of Oman's desert beyond the mountains in the interior consists of bare gravel plains with the real sand dune areas far, far away. Small children prefer the water and the sand and that you can find in one of the new hotels near Muscat much easier, but you won't see much of Oman. You will have to balance a bit. Most info on the various trips is on website with references to other guides. So you will have to do a bit of reading.... Wait a few years and you can do much more.
Greetings

Jan

01:53 10-08-2012

hamid alzeidi

Hi friends ,
very nice trips and also very nice pictures you uploaded. you had visted many places in oman i am omani and i never visite these places. thank you and i hope you come again to oman and to my village ( Wadi Fida ).
please let me now when you read this feedback,
my email :
[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow">[email protected]
my phone number:
+968 95511457

Thank you

Geantwoord op: 16:27 12-08-2012

Thanks for the nice words. Enjoy and be proud of Oman

Jan

01:46 10-08-2012

hamid alzedi

Hi friends ,
very nice trips and also very nice pictures you uploaded.
you had visted many places in oman i am omani and i never visite these places.

thank you and i hope you come again to oman and to my village ( Wadi Fida ).

please let me now when you read this feedback,

my email :

[email protected]

my phone number:

+968 95511457

Thank you

07:48 24-01-2012

Ruud en Bianca

Beste Jan,
Wij vertrekken eind feb naar Oman. We gaan een weekje kamperen en willen met een 4wd op pad. We lezen echter in de kleine lettertjes bij de verhuurmaatschappijen dat zelfs de 4wd niet verzerkerd is als er off road iets gebeurd! Heb je een tip voor ons? Evt een verhuurmaatschappij waar we wel goed verzekerd op pad kunnen?
We zijn overigens nog op zoek naar de trekking guide van Oman (explorer) -> nergens meer te krijgen. Weet jij misschien een adresje?
Alvast bedankt voor je hulp
Gr. Ruud en Bianca

Geantwoord op: 19:33 24-01-2012

Ben geen lawyer, maar even 2 punten:
1) Helemaal offroad zonder tracks is vrijwel onmogelijk in de bergen en niet aan te raden in de woestijn, zeker als je maar met 1 auto bent.
2) Er zijn overal goede gravel wegen of tracks die je naar de mooiste punten voeren, dus er is geen noodzaak voor offroad. Een 4WD is goed voor de slechte wegen!

Wat betreft goede guides. Ik heb net op Amazon.com gekeken en daar zijn ze allemaal te koop (probeer maar eens "Oman Explorer" in Amazon search. Je kunt ze ook in Oman kopen. Overigens de routes die daarin staan gaan nergens offroad (in de strikte zin van het woord).
Bij het huren van autos wel opletten of dat geen soort lease-auto is maar een volledige huurauto. Sommige goedkope firmas gebruiken lease autos die niet voor verhuur zijn en als daar een ongeluk mee gebeurt dan kan dat problemen geven. Vraag naar goede banden en een rollover bar is ook niet weg.

Nooit alleen offroad!!!

14:58 15-01-2012

Ludo Mooi

Hallo Jan,

Wat een geweldige rijsverhalen hebben jullie op deze site staan.
Ik ga volgende week donderdag weg naar oman en wil de trip van Wakan to Hadash Walk lopne.
Zou je voor mij het Google eart bestand KML willen toe sturen. dan kan ik die importeren in de navigatie. Het linkje is er niet meer.http://home.kpn.nl/lilian_jan_schreurs/oman/WakHad.htm
Gr Ludo

Geantwoord op: 17:27 15-01-2012

Die staat op de website.
http://home.kpn.nl/~lilian_jan_schreurs/mapoman/WakHad.zip
Gewoon op de map drukken en dan de plek opzoeken

http://home.kpn.nl/~lilian_jan_schreurs/mapoman/OmanGoogiline.htm

15:18 02-01-2012

HUGHES-ROVIRA Nancy

Hi, you guys, I'm trying to get in touch with a first cousin of mine I haven't seen in years, named Alban ROVIRA.He is the son of Jean Rovira, deceased for many years, and Yvette, presently living in Avignon. He is married to Yvonne and they have two children. My Mum in Perpignan has been telling us stories of how they were getting on; phone calls between the two sisters in law, now in their 80ies; same again this Xmas, and when we get to the exciting bit, like they are no longer at the other end of the world but next door so to speak, she cannot provide the interesting details!!! Grrr!! So like a message in a bottle, since he wrote some stuff posted on your blog, I'm trying to get in touch with him through you. I live in Calais France and my elder son has been living and working in London for over two years, he got married over a year ago; a get together might be fun! Please do get in touch, I've left my professional e mail, the Hughes bit comes from my husband. Wherever you are, best wishes for 2012, Nancy

Geantwoord op: 17:49 02-01-2012

Looks like the Alban we know. I will get you in contact with him as soon as he is back from leave in France.
Jan

09:32 02-01-2012

Jeroen

Beste Jan,

Erg leuk om te 'surfen' door jullie trips in Oman.
Wellicht domme vraag: wij plannen een 10-daagse vakantie in Oman. Staan nu voor de keuze met of zonder chauffeur. Voorkeur is zonder, maar ik weet niet goed welke stukken ik dan moet overslaan. Ik wil de bekende 'sites' rond Nizwa allemaal zien. Kan dat met 4wd zonder chauffeur? Idem naar Wahiba Sands. Kan het stuk Nizwa tot Sur ook zelf? Het stuk in Wahiba tot een tentenkamp wordt je opgehaald door iemand van het kamp, dus dat is geen probleem (schijnt). Ik heb geen 4wd ervaring, graag je advies waarvoor bij voorbaat dank.
Vr. groet, Jeroen

Geantwoord op: 11:30 02-01-2012

Nizwa en Sur is allemaal met gewone auto's te doen op moderne en nieuwe wegen (er is erg veel aangelegd in de afgelopen jaren). Haalt ook een beetje avontuur weg, maar daar hoef je dus niet bang voor te zijn. Geen chauffeur nodig op de routes die jullie willen zien!

Groeten

Jan

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