January 28, 2010 by his blackness
These are some pictures from a recent trip to Nizwa. Nizwa, besides being fun to say, is the religious and cultural capital of Oman, and we are trying to get a teaching gig out here this summer. So hopefully we will be seeing a lot more of Nizwa in the coming months. enjoy Recommend on [...]
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January 11, 2010 by his blackness
After Thanksgiving, we had an opportunity to travel to Muscat with our friend who came and visited us. These are from the Mutrah area of Muscat mostly around the old souq. Hope you enjoy. b Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
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January 9, 2010 by his blackness
A souq (sook) is basically the arabic word for market. They are usually overcrowded, dirty, and I love them. Most of the time I go to the souq I come back thinking my arabic was AMAZING, this usually lasts until I realize that the shopkeepers of most of the shops don’t speak arabic as their [...]
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November 10, 2009 by his blackness
Visiting a nearby village on an outing near our house in Buraimi it began to rain. As you can imagine rain in the desert is kind of a big deal, but driving in the rain in the desert is an even bigger deal. People on this stretch of road pretty much just stopped their cars [...]
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November 6, 2009 by his blackness
Some of our local friends offered to take us to a local seaside town called Sohar. It is about an hour or so and when we there we drove right up to the beach and this is what we saw. As we pulled up on the sand we saw a big crowd and trucks in [...]
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