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      Transfer to a wadi (120 km - 1h 30)

      Walk and swim in a wadi

We start with a refreshing swim in the vast pool down the village where we park. We then walk up the wadi around large boulders and across water pools until the canyons narrows to form very long pools. We swim there and go back the same way. Warning : in some places, you might have to step in the water ; you shoes and pants might get wet…

- Level 2    
- Duration : 4 hours
- Walking time : 2 to 3 hours

      Transfer to Tiwi (80 km - 1h)

      Short hike in the wadi through palm gardens

We hike in the wadi, through the palm garden (which also hosts bananas, papayas, mango trees, lime, etc…) along the falaj to reach our camp site. Water flows in the river bed, flanks are covered by lush green gardens, dominated by steep cliffs.

- Level 2    
- Duration : 2 hours
- Walking time : 1 to 2 hours

We camp in a private garden in the wadi. The place is great and walking around late afternoon is great : superb views and lots of birds! For the moment, the place is very simple, but the owner plans to build toitlets soon…

Individual camping tent

      Hike in the wadi and swim in the canyon

A beautiful hiking day : we walk all the wadi long, mostly on paths and falajs in the gardens, sometimes across boulders in the wadi bed, and few short parts on the track. On the way, we cross several villages. After arriving in the last village, we can go for a swim in the canyon just down the village in the middle of the canyon.

- Level 3    
- Duration : 6 hours
- Height difference : +300m/-50m
- Walking time : 4 to 5 hours

We spend the night in the majilis (guest room) of a private house in the village. We all sleep in the same room and we have own toilet and shower. Dinner and breakfast are prepared by people from the village. It's a chance to spend a night in a traditional village, but it's less comfortable and asks an effort on our behaviour with the local people.

Dormitory Room
. Breakfast & dinner taken at the hotel

      Hike from a wadi to another through the mountain

We walk up to the plateau sirting around the cliffs above us. The views over the valley are superb. We reach the dry plateau and keep on walking up an down. We enjoy some excelletn views towards the sea. Finally, we reach a main valley and we walk down to a suprising green oasis set on the flank foo the montain. From there, the views over this grand canyon are superb.

- Level 4    
- Duration : 7 hours
- Height difference : +800m/-400m
- Walking time : 5 to 6 hours

We camp in the majilis belonging to the mosque of the village : this is the place where men meet and sit to talk. As the village is now very little populated, the mosque agreed to rent it to us. It's a beautiful place in the middle of the gardens and we have bathroom. Decent clothing and behaoviour are required…

Camping

      Short hike to the village in the Wadi

We hike from a village at the flank of the mountain to the oasis we see in the bottom of the valley. The path in the cliffs offers us great views. And the arrival in the oasis is just wonderful : it is one of the most beautiful village of Oman, although it is not much known.

- Level 2    
- Duration : 2 hours
- Height difference : +0m/-200m
- Walking time : 1 to 2 hours

      Transfer to Ibra (150 km - 5h)

Standard Room

      Visit of Ibra Souq

- Duration : 1 hours

      Transfer to our campsite in the desert (70 km - 1h)

      Sunset in the dunes

We start a walk across the dunes in late afternoon. The heat isn't too strong anymore and the sunlight is the more beautiful. The setting sun always gives changing colour to the sand and the shades. This a great unforgetable time.

- Level 1    
- Duration : 1 hours

Individual camping tent

      Hiking in the Wahiba Sands

We start walking early morning when the sun is not too strong. We walk some 3-4 hours in this wonderful lanscape of sand dunes. Around twelve, when the sun reaches its highest point, we stop to have lunch and rest under the shade. At the end of the afternoon we start walking again around our camp to see sunset. In the desert, the walking time is only informative and we can adapt the length of the stages according to the group.

- Level 3    
- Duration : 6 hours
- Height difference : +100m/-100m
- Walking time : 4 to 5 hours

Individual camping tent

      Transfer to a wadi (80 km - 1h 30)

      Aquatic hiking in a wadi of the Eatern Hajar

An easy quatic hike in one of the most beautiful wadis of oman. We start from an oasis in the valley. We walk across its luxuriant palm garden to reach he entrance of the garden. We then walk between large boulders to arrive to 2 wonderful pools with waterfalls. In one of these we can jump from 10 meters. We keep on walking in the water and the swim several long pools (until 300 meters). The valley then widens and we discover another oasis.

- Level 1    
- Duration : 5 hours
- Walking time : 3 to 5 hours

      Transfer to Nizwa (250 km - 3h)

A beautiful hotel located in an old quarter of Nizwa, just behind the souk. It's a complex of several old houses which have been renovated with a lot of taste.

Standard Room
. Breakfast taken at the hotel

      Souq of Nizwa

Nizwa is a major city of Oman located at the foot of the mointains in the interior. In the past it was the capital of the country and remains the cultural center of the country for mountain people. The Souq was rehabilitated some 15 years ago. Friday is the market day, called 'Souq Al Jumaa', and brings visitors from the nearby mountains as well as bedous from the desert side. The livestock souq is particularly worth a visit. But you find also the fish souq, vegetable souq, meat souq, as well as some people saling moutain honey, dates, incense, and anything you might need.

- Duration : 1 hours 30

      Transfer to a wadi flowing down from Jebel Akhdar (70 km - 1h)

      Hike up to Jebel Akhdar

A pleasant and gentle hike. We walk sometimes in the bottom of the wadi and sometimes on old paths a little up. There is a stream flowing and some pools are just big enough for a refreshing bath. After 2 hours walk we cross abandonned gardens. The rocks are wonderful : we walk on wide layers of purple and gren clay. We finally arrive to a village surrounded by impressive huge cliffs and here is the car track.

- Level 2    
- Duration : 4 hours
- Height difference : +300m/-50m
- Walking time : 2 to 3 hours

      Transfer to a plateau covered with juniper trees (40 km - 1h)

2400m high in the center of the Jebel Akhdhar, surrounded by giant juniper and wild olive trees. A few steps away, you can enjoy great views over the valleys of the northern slope.

Individual camping tent

      Transfer to a high village (15 km - 0h 30)

      Hike to a remote palm garden in a canyon

We start from a village located at an height of 2000 m and we walk the same way as the villagers who go work in the gardens, some 700 meters down. After 2 hours walk we finally discover the gardens where grow palm, lime, banana tree, garlic, and sweet potatoes. The place is really beautiful. We come back another way to another village located on the plateau.

- Level 3    
- Duration : 6 hours
- Height difference : +500m/-650m
- Walking time : 4 to 5 hours

      Transfer to a high troglodyte settlement (20 km - 0h 45)

Overnight in a beautifully renovated guesthouse in an old troglodyte village. The village is built under a cliff.

Standard Room
. Breakfast & dinner taken at the hotel

      Hike in the mountain

A nice hike, not too much difficult, except one very steep descent, which take us from the plateau to a valley forming a big amphitheater. We start at a village located at 2200m above sea level, where pomogranates and wallnuts do particularly well, and use a path on the flank of the mountain which offers spectular views over several valleys of the northern slope. We finaly reach a pass where we discover the big amphitheater-like valley in which lays our arrival point : a village located at an height of 1400m, where main grown trees are apricots and peaches.

- Level 3    
- Duration : 7 hours
- Height difference : +450m/-800m
- Walking time : 5 to 6 hours

A nice Guesthouse, very well located at the entrance of the village, and with superb view over the valley

Standard Room
. Breakfast & dinner taken at the hotel

      Hike up to Jebel Akhdar

We start in a village located at 1400m. We start climbing across the terraces planted with apricots, onions, pomogranates, and lime trees. We then follow the falaj and climb steeply toward a small pass. All along the steep climb we have stunning views over the amphiteater-like vallley we come from. After the pass a gentle walk in a landscape typical of Jebel Akhdhar leads us to a high village.

- Level 3    
- Duration : 6 hours
- Height difference : +800m/-500m
- Walking time : 4 to 6 hours

We set up our camp not far from a village, at an height of 1900m.

Individual camping tent

      Hike down from Jebel Akhdar

A very nice hike in a wild and little visited valley of jebel Akhdar. We walk down the plateau to the Samail Gap. Views are stunning durign the main descent and the last part in the wadi with wild palm trees, waterpools and the old falaj (water chanel) is delightfull

- Level 3    
- Duration : 6 hours
- Height difference : +100m/-1300m
- Walking time : 4 to 6 hours

      Transfer to Muttrah (120 km - 1h 15)

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