The featured image shows a rifle and the Arabic lettering spells "gun gallery."  I took this photograph in the Nizwa Souk, or bazaar. Oman men love rifles and swords, especially to wear at weddings. Wearing both a rifle and a sword, as well as your family dagger tucked in your waist scarf,  at a wedding…

The  featured image shows the Nomad Inn, a guest house in Muscat. It attracts travelers of all types as well as houses ex-pats who work in Oman.  The canopied balcony is right outside the room where I have been staying for a week.  The roof deck is where there is a communal dinner in the…

The featured image is a photograph taken inside an old fort in Nizwa, a sizeable oasis 100 miles southwest of Muscat, the capital.  Those readers who know me well will recognize that , yes, I now have another window photo to add to my collection of window photographs. Driving outside the capital is unsettling. The Omani  Hajjar…

So few art galleries in Oman allow for photographs.  Photography of the ones included in this post was encouraged because all are for sale.  These are my favorites of the Omani artists: And the paint the oryx contest.

That's me in the featured image.  Had to pay $8 to rent an abaya so I could enter the Grand Mosque.  And, it is grand.  The main prayer room chandelier is one of the largest ever made and the silk carpet in that room is the largest single Persian carpet ever made.  The Sultan paid for it. I took a video but my server bounced it back. Even though it is a really short  video it is apparently too large to post here!

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• And here is one of the many palaces of the Sultan.  He is much beloved in Oman, if not the world, and he is ailing.  He leaves no direct heir so it is hoped one of his cousins will succeed him.
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