April 08
Let me continue with the resent happenings and postpone the stories about the journey from Ibri to Muscat as I lost most of my text few days ago while I was updating the website, but I will re-write them again in next few days

9th April 08
now I’m in Sur city, this town is famous because of the ship building, long ago Sur people were making wooden ship which here they call it Lanch, all Omani fishermen or sailors had to come here to order for one, but now this city has just one workshop left that is still making hand made Ship, the town is really messy and wherever you go, you see rubbish, terribly dirty L. Today I had sightseeing in the city and round of the coast, it was still messy and many types of goats were grazing in the street and alleys too and night time you can see big rats in the city where they were looking for food, that’s so funny. Martin and I decided to stay one day more here in Sur just for rest and tomorrow we will go to Muscat, I have to extend my visa and Marten has to do his affairs

7th April 08

Today I arrived in a town called Quriyyat about 85 kms in the south part of Muscat,I left Muscat in the evening and I could cycle just something about 35 kms in that day, and I stayed in a building with some Bengalis truck drivers, it was their dormitory, they had every thing there, and I slept for over night as they didn’t let me set up my tent out side, they said as you are Muslim and we too, so we have to help you as our brother and so on, early in the morning I got up and had breakfast there then I left them to Quriyyat, Quriyyat city was nice and quite , but messy, and full of Gouts, everywhere you look , Quriyyat is a port on Oman Gulf and the majority of people are fisherman, I stayed there for a few hours and ate bread with cheese and lots of fruits in the only beach Park there, and in the evening I left there to Sur city, the distance was about more than 100 kms and I couldn’t cycle all in the evening late, the weather was too windy against me and it made difficult pedaling, but anyhow I cycled for about 20 kms till I reached the high way to Sur, but the road was still under the construction as it had been broken on last Cyclone in Oman which damaged damaged, so I couldn’t cycle so far on the bad off roads and I was waiting for a pick up to take and passed me the off roads, after a few second I found a pick up which was going on the same way, so they were working on this project, they were from Pakistan and they stayed in a huge campsite on the mid of the road, somewhere near the Shab village, then they took me to the campsite I got so happy about this when I found Marten , a German guy, there. it was just by chance, caz Marten was invited by one of the engineers on that project when he was hiking on the beach near the campsite, anyway. We found again each other and stayed in a same guest room at the campsite and really enjoyed their hospitalities, Mr. Ayyob and Mr. Yaghub was so friendly to we both and I really appreciate them, also to Mr. Mohammad nassir who took me to the campsite for staying there over a night otherwise I couldn’t meet my friend again.

Next to the campsite there was a park which had a big sink hole in the middle, people have different imaginations about this phenomenon, but in my opinion it was like a cave which the roof was ruined down and everything got appear from outside now, I took some photos about this. Hope you like it.

The day after I cycled to Sur but on the way we had to visit a wadi named Shab and then going to Sur but everything got changed as we stayed more than half a day in wadi ( valley) it was very nice and beautiful but the cyclone was really damaged it and all the palm gardens were destroyed but at the end of wadi there was a few lakes suitable for swimming,