November 16, 2016
Catherine Fairweather (Harper’s Bazaar)
In the sun-scorched sand dunes of Oman's Empty Quarter, nothingness reigns, the horizon doesn't break, wildlife is hushed and no phone signal exists.
December 13, 2013
Mark Graham (Asia Weekly)
The slow creaking open of Oman's window to the outside world has resulted in the Middle Eastern gem avoiding the rampant consumerism and glitzy over-the-top architecture so among its neighbours
February 17, 2010
Susan Hack (Condé Nast Traveller)
Our driver and guide is Sean Nelson, a forty-seven-year-old former British Royal Marines Commando and onetime major in the Oman army's Desert Regiment who launched a luxury camping company three years ago.
December 16, 2007
Dom Joly (The Sunday Times)
Rise early, for the hour after dawn is borrowed from paradise. So says an Arab proverb - and, within 24 hours of my touchdown in Oman, I am a believer.
October 21, 2007
Tom Robbins (The Observer)
Until now, nothing has offered quite the same degree of dislocation, of utter melon-twisting discombobulation, as this tiny dose of the colossal, timeless, unknowable, Empty Quarter.
July 18, 2007
Lisa Johnson (The Evening Standard)
Named after the Arabic for hoopoe bird (hud hud), the new mobile safari operation has six canvas tents, wooden pit toilets, pump showers and a lovely majlis (sitting area) bedecked with great round bolsters covered in the red plaid sarongs
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