9 April 08
I am in Istanbul now you got surprise, don’t you?

Yes they tried a lot to extend the visa but it didn’t work as my visa was an express one and I had to leave the country, then I decided to visit Yemen as it was close to Oman and then to Saudi Arabia but either it doesn’t work as I couldn’t obtain the visa because of different reasons such as kidnapping the individuals tourists and so on, then I had to back home caz even I couldn’t inter to the Emirate and it needed to apply for a visa for the second time and it was so difficult because of some political problems we Iranian can’t get the visa on the border like other nationalities, but NP I’m honor of my Nationality so the only way that I had was getting a fly ticket to get back home to Iran from Muscat, I went to one of travel agencies for getting some info about the fly to Iran and even the ticket prices, then I found it’s too expensive flying to my town from Muscat, and I had to spend lot of money for, then I asked for Turkey air like and the tickets, the price was a bit more than going to Iran, so I took a ticket to Istanbul for a day after, around 4:20 am after that I went to the Iran Embassy as I was invited in a national ceremony of the annual Army Day, I couldn’t arrive on time but it was still not late, I met the ambassador Mr.Sahragar and the other staffs in the party, and we took some photos, they invited me for dinner as well and I really enjoyed staying with those guys at the Embassy, the party finished around 11 pm and at the end they wished me luck on the journey, I really thx to all the staffs especially to the ambassador Mr. Sahragar and Mr. Zarnegar who favored and helped me a lot, I really appreciate their attitude.

Yes finally I left Iran Embassy to the Seeb International Airport, it was a sad time for me as I was going to leave the friendly Omani people they were really good and helpful to me in my journey and I would like to go there one more time And meet the people again,

I wish the best for all good people in Oman, who were with me on this journey and helped, Then I unpacked my all the luggage to install on the bike and going to the town, So, Now I am in Turkey…. I have a good memory about this event, Istanbul was very cold for me by the arrival, but it was ok

18 April 08
Today is the 13th of April, we left Sur to Ibra for a short visit and then heading off to Muscat with the bus as I had no more time to stay and cycle there, Ibra had no interesting site to visit in fact form my side and the city was too dry, all the gordens were damaged and the palms trees had been dead. unfortunately because of the lake of water but we spend some times for visiting the old part of the city, and then we went to a mosque for pray and resting till the departure time we had enough time for. It was even interesing for Martin to stay in a mosque for a while and rest

Finally we took the bus and went to Muscat, this time we stayed in a hotel in Rowi Area where you will find and see many many indian and pakistani, the hotel had a night club bar which to music group had program every nights, we did not stay more than a night as the sounds didn’t let us to sleep, we stayed anyhow and then we were looked for another nice places for one more night to stay, the day after I went to the Foreigner affairs departments for extending the visa to stay 2 weeks more. But after a long discussion with them I couldn’t do anything then I decided to ask for help from the Iran Embassy in Muscat, I went there and they promised me to do something to extend the visa but…….