26 March 08

I cycled down to the Sohar city on the Oman Sea Coast, the road was too much Down and uphill but I arrived to there by the late evening and I went on the coast to find a place to camp, I really enjoyed staying there when I invited by a nice Omani guy for taking a shower, but then he asked me to stay with him if I like;-) and I stayed there for 2 days more. Sohar is a beautiful city in Oman full of palm trees and many other types of trees. It is very spacious and everywhere you look there are gardens. Even though it is a big town, when you approach it, it is hidden by the lush green gardens surrounding it

23 March

Today I arrived to the land of Oman at 2:30 pm, it was interesting crossing a boarder between 2 countries, the check post named Hili from Dubai side and paid 20 Emirates Dirham as an exit tax, but the check point of Oman was about 35 kms away from Al-Buraymi town, this town is buys too much as many Omani and Emirates are going to go to the other side, it’s eay for them to cross the borders while they live in the Arabian Union, anyway.As I was in the last day of my Oman visa validity to inter to the country I had to show them that I’m in Oman but it would take something about 3 hours to reach the Omani check point then I took a pick up to go there just because of the visa, I found a nice guy who was really interested in cycling on the way to the check point and he took me there free of charge, after I arrived there the weather was dark and it was impossible to continue the journey at the night time, so I stayed in a small village with 2 houses and a mosque I had a nice time there,