Monday, June 7, 2010

Day 1 - Welcoming from UAE & Oman

 The day has come!!!! My travel adventure to Middle East with Fiona and Lok which has been planned in advance of 3 months prior to Fiona's confirmation on her flight to stop by from Manchester before going to Kuala Lumpur!!

As I have mention on my last post which states my plan on how I would execute my travel routes.

For DAY 1 - I took off at 0400hrs from my house Khor Fakkan

It's early 0400hrs in the morning! My camera has fog due to the hot weather out side and my cold air con in my room

The Main entrance of my resident

The chariot for the whole 1932km. I love this car as its fuel consumption is low at about AED 0.12 cents per km. I would like to thank my company too!!!!!!!

On the way from the car park to arrival hall of Dubai International Airport - Terminal 3 (DXB) 

The interior of the Arrival hall of DXB

The Exterior of DXB

Water features 

Another water features but with plants

Fiona's flight was EK 020 which is delay till 0759hrs. Thats an hour delay! I actually arrived at 0700hrs sharp!!

1 hour to burn! So more interior photos!


Under the 1st floor brigade




going up to departure level where Burger King is located.

See the police there! I was warn to take photo. So I did not take any more photos!

Dubai Mall Aquarium- about 50m in length. Full of fishes.

The interior of Dubai Mall 

The Grand area of Dubai Mall where all the branded stores are here.


Me at Burj Al Arab

Me @ Burj Al Khalifah

At Burj Al Khalifah with a horse and a Arab to make sure I'm in UAE!

The cinema area at Dubai Mall

The gold souq


Fiona @ Burj Al Arab

Ibri ancient fan at the souq

The ancient houses in Ibri

The Ibri Fort

Jabreen Castle in Nizwa, Oman

Jabreen Castle Overview

On our way to the Niwza town

Me in Ibri Fort

Heading to Niwza Souq

Sunset in Niwza

Hungry Bunny - the Oman Fast Food

Hungry Bunny Nizwa

Niwza Souq surrounded by the mountains 

Nizwa Souq entrance

Niwza Souq with an invisible Omani!

On our my to the last destination! Muscat!!

Sultan Qaboos  Mosque, Muscat, Oman

Anyview of Sultan Qasoob Mosque, Muscat, Oman

The regular Arab Salad

Fried King Fish


A regular Omani Meal

Omani tomato sauce 

The Omani bread

Chicken with potato and tomato

Lamb Maqboos - Omani rice

Half way with dinner

Hungry ghosts cause its 2100 hrs.

Fiona haven't seen any arabic meal before!! 

Us at the Omani Restaurant! We were on the floor

The walkway of Ministry of Finance Oman, Muscat

The exterior of the walkway

The overview of both the walkways

The main building of Finance Minister Building, Muscat, Oman

Mutrah Souq, Muscat, Oman

A Portuguese fort on the hill of Muscat Cornice. 

A gazebo at he side of the cornice

The large incense burner on the hill


Corridor at the cornice!!


The main street of Muscat is facing the sea. Look at the lights at the old Muscat!!

At the end of the day we stayed at Mutrah Hotel. Its the first and oldest hotel in Muscat. It was a 12 hrs ride for the day. Was drop died tired. 

Will update on the second day of the trip!!






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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