Tailor-made Oman Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

Framed by 16th-century Portuguese forts Al Jalali and Al Mirani, the Muscat waterfront maintains a strict low-rise skyline. Within the Mutrah Souq, the scent of Dhofari frankincense fills a labyrinth of timber-roofed alleys where merchants trade Omani khanjar daggers and hand-embroidered kummah caps.

Rising 2,000 metres above sea level, the Green Mountain is famous for its Damask roses and pomegranate orchards carved into limestone terraces. Hiking trails follow the Falaj Bani Habib, part of a 1,500-year-old gravity-fed irrigation network that still supplies water to abandoned stone villages and active cliffside farms.

In the historic port of Sur, the Al Hamoodah Boatyard remains the only site in the region still hand-assembling wooden dhows without modern blueprints. To the east, the Ras Al Jinz Turtle Reserve protects the nesting grounds of the endangered Green Turtle, where up to 30,000 females return annually to the same beach to lay eggs.