One of 50 enriching experiences offered by HSBC Jade to their clients. A unique "glamping" experience tailored for HSBC Jade clients aimed at guests who are looking for an immersive experience into Omani culture and nature with a focus on
Steve Walker is a professional photographer keen on landscape and travel photos wherever he has visited. Steve and his lovely wife Jane visited Oman in 2019 and did a full week trip with Hud Hud Travels in Oman.
As Oman continues to open up to the culturally curious, Alice B-B embarks on a singular adventure – brief but stretched to bursting with thought-provoking encounters – across empty sands and along pristine coasts.
It feels like Oman has been popping up as a “must see” destination recently, so upon the recommendation of friends we started our journey through the Middle East in Muscat. Oman wasn’t as I expected at all.
Last year, savvy travelers flocked to Rio for the Olympics; Cuba, because they could; and America’s national parks, to celebrate the 100th birthday of the natural wonders in their own backyards. In 2017, we’ll see hot spots like Sri Lanka,
The world we explored every day was hard, barren and alien, the world we encountered at night couldn't have been warmer or more welcoming.
Attention chameaux! Les panneaux routiers sont clairs. Ces dieux sont ici chez eux, prioritaires. D'autant, qu'assure le chauffeur, très souvent un camélidé, aspirant à vivre en ermite pour se ressourcer, quitte son enclos, errant libre comme le vent.
I was a Royal Marine for eight years so I have done a fair bit of camping in inhospitable places, such as when I was eaten alive by giant ants in the Amazon or when I spent the night in
The desert around Khaluf is made of white sand that is particularly crystalline and, at dusk, dunes that have spent hours shimmering in the heat suddenly appear glacial.
Desert camping is the adventure for 2013, as extremely remote destinations become easier to reach and wilderness experts conjure up ever more astonishing levels of portable luxury.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
