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an evening in muscat: al alam palace, mutrah souq & the silk route

06 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Al Alam Palace, Medinat Sultan Qaboos, Muscat, Muttrah Souq, Oman, Silk Route

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Sunday, January 6:  Al Alam Palace (“Flag Palace”) in Muscat is one of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos‘s six royal residences in Oman, and apparently the most important.

Al Alam Palace

Al Alam Palace

We walk up the long pedestrian boulevard between two arcaded colonnades, and the boys find themselves with the urge to do handstands in front of the palace.

Adam does a handstand in front of Al Alam Palace
Adam does a handstand in front of Al Alam Palace
Alex does a handstand in front of Al Alam Palace
Alex does a handstand in front of Al Alam Palace

The palace was built in 1972 and is a flashy example of modern Islamic design, with two wings attached to a central cube-like building with a flat roof, supported by blue and gold flared columns.

Al Alam Palace behind its iron gates

Al Alam Palace behind its iron gates

The palace isn’t open to the public, but it’s fun to come here at different times of year to see the colorful palace with its rotating flower gardens in the foreground. Last time I came here, yellow, red and pink marigolds framed the entry to the palace; this time terraces of lavender, pink, violet and white impatiens are in bloom.

impatiens in bloom in front of the palace
impatiens in bloom in front of the palace
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Adam & Alex in front of Al Alam Palace
Adam & Alex in front of Al Alam Palace
Adam, Mike and Alex
Adam, Mike and Alex
Alex in the colonnaded arcade
Alex in the colonnaded arcade
Adam in the arcade
Adam in the arcade

We walk around the grounds where we see a large complex of white government buildings.  On a stony hill to the right are the original city walls snaking up the hill, punctuated with three watchtowers glowing in the waning light.

the old city walls

the old city walls

On our way out, we pass by a pretty mosque with colorful stained glass windows.

a mosque with pretty stained glass windows

a mosque with pretty stained glass windows

We head to Mutrah, where we wander along the corniche and then into the alleyways of the souq.  None of us are really looking to buy anything, but Mike does buy a small incense burning kit.  We just enjoy watching the people and looking at all the enticing things for sale.

along Mutrah corniche
along Mutrah corniche
the harbor viewed from Mutrah corniche
the harbor viewed from Mutrah corniche
entering Mutrah Souq
entering Mutrah Souq
pretty trinkets
pretty trinkets
incense burners
incense burners
Aladdin's lamps?
Aladdin’s lamps?

After our wanderings, we head to Medinat Sultan Qaboos to The Silk Route for dinner.  The Silk Route is a pan-Asian restaurant, and we are surprised when they bring out an iPad menu for each of us.  We can scroll through the menu, enlarge the photos of the food, and then add our order to a shopping cart.  We are certainly impressed by this nice touch, and we enjoy playing around for quite some time with these fun menus.  After we order, the waiter comes by to double-check our order, and then we have a fabulous meal of Shrimp Pad Thai, vegetable noodles, basil cauliflower and sweet & sour vegetables.

Adam checks out the iPad menu at The Silk Route
Adam checks out the iPad menu at The Silk Route
Mike & Adam at The Silk Route
Mike & Adam at The Silk Route
Alex and his iPad menu
Alex and his iPad menu
Alex and me :-)
Alex and me 🙂

After dinner, I sadly have to drive back to Nizwa, while the boys spend the night at Safeer Suites.  They plan to go to the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque tomorrow, but as I’ve been there already, I won’t go with them. Some of us have to work, after all. 🙂

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a morning of pampering at bamboo spa & a full day in muscat :-)

01 Thursday Mar 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Bamboo Spa, Middle East, Muscat, Trader Vic's

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Thursday, March 1: This morning I arrive at the Bamboo Spa at Medinat Sultan Qaboos at 10 a.m. for a full morning of pampering.  Last month, while my boys were still here, I stumbled upon this place while they slept in after a late evening at the Intercontinental.  At that time, I made this appointment and I’ve been looking forward to it ever since.

the fabulous Bamboo Spa at Medinat Sultan Qaboos

the fabulous Bamboo Spa at Medinat Sultan Qaboos

The warm and friendly staff welcomes me with a cup of coffee and then I have my eyebrows plucked.  I don’t want to have the threading done this time as I found it too painful; I do love to avoid pain whenever possible.  They then lead me into a massage room where I’m given a robe & slippers and am told to lie face down on the massage table.

the quiet & peaceful entrance to Bamboo Spa

the quiet & peaceful entrance to Bamboo Spa

We start with a “Nourishing Aroma Honey Glow” body scrub (15 OMR), in the name of “purification and exfoliation.”  Because of the dry air in Oman, this scrub feels cleansing and refreshing, as if a whole layer of dead, dry skin is scrubbed away and I am reborn with a fresh new layer of skin.  For 45 minutes, the massage therapist, a kind and gentle Filipino named Mena scrubs and massages me, back and front, head to toe.

the massage room ~ lovely

the massage room ~ lovely

After this amazing scrub down, I’m told to take a shower, which I do, and then the 1 1/2 hour massage called “Holistic Lava Shells” (35 OMR) begins.  There are some kinds of shells filled with a lava gel, heated up over a flame, and rubbed into my skin.  Mena layers on a warm ginger oil, which she massages in expertly, and then she applies the hot, but not burning, lava gel. For almost an hour, she focuses on my back and shoulders, and it’s very soothing.  However, most of this massage is done on my back, meaning that all this time I’m lying face down.  After awhile this gets to be quite uncomfortable and I keep shifting about trying to take the pressure off my knees and hips.

Mena the masseuse

Mena the masseuse

After this I take a warm shower and wash off all the oil.  They advise me before the treatment that I should go home and let the oil sit on my skin for a couple of hours before showering; however I tell them I’m here in Muscat for the entire day and I live in Nizwa.  I won’t be going home so I must shower immediately after so I won’t be all greasy for the rest of the day.

little pleasures

little pleasures

After my shower, Mena then gives me a pedicure.  When I sit down in the pedicure seat, I find a beautiful plate artistically arranged with orange and apple slices and a pink cupcake, a cup of coffee with sugar and a glass of water.  Mena does my pedicure, polishing me off in pale pink.

land of the pedicures

land of the pedicures

It’s a lovely experience, lasting nearly 3 1/2 hours all told.  Because I made my appointment well in advance, the owner of the spa, Mouza, offers me a special deal: the Nourishing Aroma Honey Glow body scrub is free.  My total for all my treatments is 45 OMR.

By the time I leave, I’m ready to take a long nap, but alas, I have arranged to meet my colleague Vicki for lunch at a mall near the Opera House.  We meet for a nice lunch of sushi and then I head to Muscat City Center for some shopping.  I have three things on my list today: a pair of sunglasses, a black handbag, and a dress appropriate to wear to the Opera House next time I go.  I come away with 2 out of the 3 items on my list; I’m left empty-handed on the dress.

After my shopping spree, I meet a friend, Alqam, who I met in the immigration line at the Jordan airport back in November.  He is trying to get a business going here in Muscat.  We share hibiscus tea and a date latte and double apple shisha at Kargeen; before long I’m scratching and scratching at my ankles, which are being eaten alive by mosquitoes.  We have a lovely time talking and smoking, then, because my ankles and wrists are covered in mosquito bites, we head indoors to Trader Vic’s at the Intercontinental, where we have a couple of  drinks and listen to some mellow Cuban singers.  We take a lovely walk on the beach, where the sand is cool under our feet and the waves lap gently up on the shore.  Sadly, I have to drive back to Nizwa, where I can barely keep my eyes open for the 1 1/2 hour drive.

with Alqam at Trader Vic's

with Alqam at Trader Vic’s

A lovely day in Muscat:-)

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parting shots of my sons in muscat & their odyssey back to the u.s.a.

03 Friday Feb 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Bamboo Spa, Kargeen, Medinat Sultan Qaboos, Muscat, Muscat Gate Museum, Odyssey Restaurant, Oman, Oman Dive Center, Silk Route

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Thursday, February 2:  I rouse Alex & Adam this morning, despite their protests that they want to stay in bed.  After all, they had a late night dancing and partying at the Intercontinental. Downstairs at the Safeer Suites’ fabulous breakfast buffet, we indulge in fruit, hummus and other vegetarian treats.  Of course I eat an omelet and other stuff because I’m not a vegetarian.  I always love the breakfast at this hotel because it has a nice narrow room with windows all along one side and a big breakfast buffet spread.

alex has breakfast at safeer suites

alex has breakfast at safeer suites

adam eating his fruit

adam eating his fruit

my breakfast includes non-vegetarian options ~ I love the feta cheese and the foul (beans)…

After breakfast, they both want to go back to sleep.  We don’t have any checkout time since we’re staying here again tonight, I leave them to their dreams.  I am ready to go out, so I decide to find a place for a pedicure.  I end up purely by chance at the Bamboo Spa, at Medinat Sultan Qaboos.  Here I am treated like royalty, with an Oriental Massage and a soothing pedicure.  I figure the boys will be asleep for a while, so I take my time and enjoy the special treatment.

a pampered morning at the bamboo spa

a pampered morning at the bamboo spa

When I finish my massage and pedicure, I return to the hotel to find they are still asleep!! I finally get them up and then after they shower and putz around for what seems like an eternity, we head out for a lovely lunch at Kargeen.  We have a big lunch buffet with fresh bread, which the boys love!!  Sitting outdoors on Kargeen’s patio at mid-day is pretty hot and miserable though, and the flies are troublesome.  Not so nice an experience as our dinner here our first weekend in Muscat.

the boys have lunch at Kargeen

lunch at kargeen

After lunch, Alex wants to go back to Mutrah Souq to buy a khanjar for a friend of his back in the USA.  On the way, we make a stop at the Muscat Gate Museum.  The museum itself is closed, but we stop and walk across the gate and wander about taking pictures.

adam & alex atop the muscat gate

the view of the sea of oman from the muscat gate

the boys in front of Muscat Gate: Alex in the foreground, Adam in the back 🙂

We go to Mutrah Souq, where Alex buys a khanjar for his friend, and then we go back to Medinat Sultan Qaboos, where we eat a lovely dinner at Silk Route, a Thai and Chinese restaurant.  It seems we are determined to spend a lot of money this weekend trying out various restaurants in Muscat!

At the fabulous Silk Route, we have a delicious dinner of Vegetable Pot Sticker Dumplings, Paw Pia Pak (Vegetable spring rolls), Pad Thai and other delectable vegetable Thai dishes.  After dinner, we go back to our room, where Alex and I settle in for the night.  Adam has made other plans to go back to the Intercontinental with Christian and his friends.  He has had a taste of the bar scene, and now I guess he’s hooked!!

Friday, February 3:  Sadly, today is the boys’ last day in Oman.  I’m so sad to see them go, but I know they have been getting homesick and they’re anxious now to be on their way.  We have a whole long day ahead of us, though, as their plane doesn’t leave tonight until 10:45 p.m. We originally thought we might want to go snorkeling today, but we don’t feel like getting up at the crack of dawn to do so.  So we sleep in, eat another leisurely breakfast at the Safeer Suites, and then do a little shopping in various spots in Muscat.

adam eating lunch at the oman dive center. How would one have a $38 lunch of sandwiches and fruit juice???

We decide we’d like to spend our last afternoon just as we spent our first afternoon in Muscat, eating lunch at the Odyssey Restaurant at the Oman Dive Center.  We sit outdoors on their patio overlooking a little cove; we can see lots of tourists sunbathing on the beach.  We arrived a little too early to order a glass of wine or a beer as they have some ridiculous rule about not serving alcohol until 3:00 on a Friday.

So we eat our lunch, trying to linger through the afternoon, which stretches before us like a long highway to an unseen horizon.  After we’ve stayed as long as we can at the restaurant, we move to the little sandy beach bar, where we wait patiently for the 3:00 moment when we can order some wine/beer and some shisha (they don’t serve either until 3:00).  At this point we finally have a glass of wine and the boys smoke some shisha.  They seem to love this experience of smoking while looking out over the beach and listening to the funky tunes.

Alex having lunch…

Finally, we decide it’s time to go as we’ve made a decision to see a movie at City Cinema Shatti to kill some time.  We go to the receptionist at the Oman Dive Center with our restaurant bill to get our three parking tickets stamped for free parking. (Now I’m a little baffled why each one of us has a parking ticket as we only have ONE CAR!  So why should we have 3 parking tickets??)

the odyssey restaurant

When we came here three weeks ago, we had a bill for 26 rials and the nice receptionist, a non-Omani, stamped our 3 parking tickets without batting an eye.   We got free parking because we ate at the restaurant, which is only fair.  This time, we handed over our lunch bill of 20 rials, and the witch of a receptionist (you know the type: one of those smug women on some weird power trip) told us that we needed to pay her 8 rials for parking!! I said, WHAT?  She says, “That’s our policy.  You must order 15 rials of food PER PERSON.  Since you only ordered 20 rials of food, you must pay 4 rials each for the other two people for parking.”  She looks at me with a self-satisfied, snotty look on her face.  I am flabbergasted, although I don’t know why I’m so shocked as I read about this ridiculous policy in Andy of Oman’s blog “Odyssey” at Oman Dive Center. Never Again!  When I originally read his post on November 28, 2011 I was shocked about this policy, and when I went to the Odyssey with Guido in early December, we didn’t have this problem.  We didn’t spend 30 rials between us, and they happily stamped our two parking tickets.  In addition, when the boys and I came here three weeks ago, we spent only 26 rials, not 45, yet we still got all three of our parking tickets stamped.

parting shots of my boys in oman 😦

So I protest and say that three weeks ago I was here and only spent 26 rials and we got all three parking tickets stamped without any problem.  The receptionist doesn’t budge, just glares down her nose at us. She is a total WITCH about the entire situation.  I want to smack that smug look off her face and just walk out of there without giving her a cent.  I always wish I could think of snappy comebacks at the time of these kinds of altercations, but I never can!  I say, “Andy in Oman wrote about this ridiculous situation in his blog!” (I guess I figure Andy is famous in Oman, which he probably is!)  I continue, “I have a blog too, and I’m going to write about this ridiculous policy!” She is unfazed. Later I wished I had pulled out my camera and started taking pictures of her.  But of course I didn’t think about it. Because I would love to post her picture along with my rant about her rude & arrogant behavior and this rip-off of a place!!

chilling at the beachside bar

First of all, I’m a little baffled about how we would spend 15 rials A PERSON for a lunch where it’s not even possible to purchase any alcohol.  Fifteen Omani Rials totals nearly $38 and the requirement of spending 15 rials each, a total of 45 rials, is equal to spending about $116!! This for a lunch of sandwiches and salads for 3 people with no alcohol included???  How could this even happen?  And the parking fee of 4 rials A PERSON, almost $31 (!!) to park for a couple of hours with ONE CAR in a parking lot that isn’t even remotely full ~ well, I just have to say the whole thing is highway robbery!! I highly recommend that NO ONE EVER set foot in this rip-off joint again!!  I intend to stay far away from this place and follow Andy’s advice to try the Blue Marlin Restaurant at Marina Bandar.

So the boys and I leave this place feeling like we’ve been had. I don’t know why a place that should be trying to attract tourists treats people so badly. GREED is the only culprit I can think of. The whole experience leaves a bad taste in our mouths.

We try to shake it off and head to City Cinema Shatti, where we kill time drinking fruit juice at a nearby local cafe and then go in to watch a pretty goofy movie, One for the Money.  This is the only movie we can all agree on that fits our allocated time slot.  It’s pretty ridiculous overall, but it keeps us mildly entertained for nearly two hours.

Following the movie, we head to Muscat City Center because I want to get a fake plant from the Home Centre.  We end up grabbing a quick bite at the food court, and then we head to the airport.  There, I stand in line with the boys while they check their luggage. I hug and kiss them goodbye and smile at them one last time.  I won’t see them again, except online, until I return home to Virginia this summer.  Adieu, my darling boys… 🙂

too bad the Oman Dive Center, with its greed and bad attitude toward tourists, has a monopoly on this lovely beach…

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the boys in muscat: an afternoon of shisha & a night of dancing

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Cafe Ziyara, Intercontinental Hotel, Medinat Sultan Qaboos, Middle East, Muscat, Oman

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Wednesday, January 25:   Yesterday evening I had to drop my car at the GMC dealer in Karsha for the major (100,000km) service.  Since my boys are here visiting and we will be stuck for a day without a car, my friend Christian offers to take us to Muscat for the day.

Adam and Alex smoke shisha at Cafe Ziyara in Muscat

Adam and Alex smoke shisha at Cafe Ziyara in Muscat

We get a bit of a late start but we go directly to Cafe Ziyara, a shisha bar in Medinat Sultan Qaboos with open-air seats outside, as well as an indoor cafe, for lunch and shisha. We order lots of hummus and bread and I order grilled halloum, a white, semi-hard sheep’s (or goat’s) milk cheese, similar to mozzarella, but not bland. Since it’s a beautiful day, we linger after lunch and smoke shisha.

my sons chillin' at Ziyara in Muscat, Oman

my sons chillin’ at Ziyara in Muscat, Oman

The only thing we don’t like about this restaurant is the lack of a toilet within the facility.  Who ever heard of a restaurant without a toilet??!! Every time one of us has to go, we have to go search out a staff member, who escorts us to a totally unrelated building, and opens the toilet with a key!  Wow, this place needs to get with the modern times.

Christian and Adam at Ziyara

Christian and Adam at Ziyara

After a long while, we leave and head to Muscat City Center, where we shop in the Home Centre and the Carrefour.  Later, we head to Al Ghazal Pub at the Intercontinental Hotel, where we have drinks and the best shrimp tempura imaginable.  Later, after going to a quiet party at a house where some U.S. Marines live, we head back to the Intercontinental, where a Canadian band called Generation is playing.

me having a fun time with my boys and Christian

No one asks the boys for their IDs, and thus they’re able to drink a few beers.  It’s really fun for them, especially since they’re too young to visit bars in the U.S.  This is Adam’s first time in a bar.  The music and the crowd are great, and we all dance and dance till the wee hours of the morning.  I’ve never seen my own sons dance before, and I can tell they’re having a fantastic time letting loose.  Though I’m tired and want to leave long before everyone else, Adam and Alex do not want to leave and keep begging to stay until the band goes home for the night.  They are dancing wildly all night on the dance floor, looking like they own the place.  Very entertaining for me to see my boys, all grown up and having the time of their lives.  🙂

Cafe Ziyara, a nice place to while away the afternoon

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~ wander.essence ~

where travel meets art

Living in Paradise...

SterVens' Tales

Thee Life, Thee Heart, Thee Tears

PIRAN CAFÉ

Word Wabbit

Wrestless Word Wrestler

Cardinal Guzman

Encyclopedia Miscellaneous - 'quality' blogging since August 2011

Pit's Fritztown News

A German Expat's Life in Fredericksburg/Texas

Fumbling Through Italy

Empty Nesters on a Green Global Trek

snowtoseas

life at the edge

inspired by the colours of the land, sea and sky of Cornwall

Slovenian Girl Abroad

A blog about travel adventures written by an Slovenian girl living in Switzerland

Let Me Bite That

Can I have a bite?

Running Stories by Jerry Lewis

Personal blog about running adventures

Finding NYC

exploring New York City one adventure at a time

The World according to Dina

Notes on Seeing, Reading & Writing, Living & Loving in The North

Cornwall Photographic

snippetsandsnaps

Potato Point and beyond

SITTING PRETTY

Storyshucker

A blog full of humorous and poignant observations.

~ wander.essence ~

where travel meets art

Living in Paradise...

SterVens' Tales

Thee Life, Thee Heart, Thee Tears

PIRAN CAFÉ

Word Wabbit

Wrestless Word Wrestler

Cardinal Guzman

Encyclopedia Miscellaneous - 'quality' blogging since August 2011

Pit's Fritztown News

A German Expat's Life in Fredericksburg/Texas

Fumbling Through Italy

Empty Nesters on a Green Global Trek

snowtoseas

life at the edge

inspired by the colours of the land, sea and sky of Cornwall

Slovenian Girl Abroad

A blog about travel adventures written by an Slovenian girl living in Switzerland

Let Me Bite That

Can I have a bite?

Running Stories by Jerry Lewis

Personal blog about running adventures

Finding NYC

exploring New York City one adventure at a time

The World according to Dina

Notes on Seeing, Reading & Writing, Living & Loving in The North

Cornwall Photographic

snippetsandsnaps

Potato Point and beyond

SITTING PRETTY

Storyshucker

A blog full of humorous and poignant observations.

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