OMAN: The Essentials – 5 Days / 4 Nights – Guaranteed Escorted Tour

A fully guided tour with great hotels, attractions and on full board meal plan.
These tours are available in English, French ,Italian ,German and Spanish
• 5 Days
• Mobile & printed vouchers accepted
Highlights
Grayline Guaranteed Escorted Tours are the most convenient and smart option to
explore a country. These packages are carefully curated to offer the maximum
experience with minimum pricing. The packages are complimented with a full guided
assistance throughout the trip with some great choice of hotels, private airport transfers,
daily breakfast and city tours. These tours are available in English, French and Italian.
Choose your preferred language and enjoy this hassle free tour

Includes
• 04 nights’ Accommodation, meals as per description
• Full-time guide Assistance
• Private airport arrival and departure transfer
• Full day tour of Muscat
• Visit Wadi Shab & Wadi Bani Khalid
• Visit of Sur & Wahiba Sands
• Transfer to Wahiba Desert by 4×4 Jeeps
• Full day tour of Nizwa
• Visit Jabreen fort
Excluded
• Flights
• OMAN Visa – payable on arrival for Europeans (5 RO / 14$) and for other
nationalities to check.
• Porterage
• Insurance: assistance, cancellation, luggage…
• Beverages & meals not above mentioned
• Visits not mentioned in the program
• Personal expenses (telephones, minibar etc.…)
• Tips to the guide & driver
• Option Extras:Should you wish to extend your stay we have some great prices
for extension nights and also a plethora of additional tours, activities, and
attractions to keep you engaged. Please check the optional extras to extend your
stay or to add more tours and excursions.
Essential Tour
Itinerary
Your detailed program will be as below
DAY 1: SATURDAY – MUSCAT – ARRIVAL
Arrival at Muscat airport. Meet & Greet by our representative. Passengers arriving
individually will be met and greet and will have a private transfer. Transfer to your
hotel by air conditioned vehicle. Check-in & Overnight in Muscat. Dinner on your
own

DAY 2: SUNDAY : MUSCAT (70KM)
Breakfast at your hotel. We will start with a briefing meeting at 9h30 am to
introduce all the group and the guide and explain the trip. Afterwards ,we start the
tour of Muscat. Drive through the beautiful embassy quarter, to reach the Sultan
Qaboos Grand Mosque that has a remarkable architectural achievement. As a
contemporary place of worship, it serves as a spiritual landmark for modern
Oman, projecting the values and aspirations of the Omani people. As an edifice, it
maintains a perfect balance between aesthetics, culture and deeply rooted
Islamic tradition. After the visit to the mosque we continue to the OPERA house
to visit this marvelous edifice specially built by the Sultan Qaboos. Lunch will be
served in a typical fish restaurant with the locals . After lunch, we will visit Old
Muscat, surrounded by steep mountains and flanked by twin 16thcentury forts
‘Jalali’ & ‘Mirani’, also see the Al Alam Palace, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos’
residence. We will then proceed to Bait Al Zubair Museum. Bait Al Zubair is itself
a part of Muscat heritage. Sheikh Al Zubair who served three former Sultans,
founded the house in 1914 and his son Mohammad Al Zubair opened it as a
museum in 1998. Its carved doors open into a fortress style reception. The
museum includes traditional Omani weaponry, jewelry, costumes, domestic
utensils and recreated urban and rural environments. Then drive through the
scenic beauty of the corniche, stop at Muttrah – the main port & commercial
center, and explore the colorful historic souk. This is a real souk with winding
alleys and backstreets and stalls selling all manner of textiles, jewelry, traditional
Omani perfumes (bukhoor – made of frankincense), souvenirs and antiques…
After that long tour, we will drive back to the hotel. Dinner is at a traditional
OMANI restaurant, where you will experience how OMANI’s eat and taste their
cuisine enjoying the relaxing atmosphere that the OMANI people like.
Overnight in Muscat.
DAY 3: MONDAY -MUSCAT -SUR- WAHIBA (340KM)
After breakfast depart for a great adventure trip .We will drive through one of the
most thrilling sections of Oman’s 1,700 KM coastline. Visit the famous Sinkhole, a
part of a collapsed mountain filled with sea water then continue driving on the
graded road via Fins. Continue your journey to Wadi Shab where we will stop to
admire the marvelous nature , and may be walk a bit in the WADI . Lunch in WADI

Shab. We will then continue to Sur, a sea-faring town and a trading port bustling
with activity throughout the year. Famed for the fascinating architecture of its old
town and shipyards where traditional dhows have been built for centuries at the
edge of the bay. After a quick tour of Sur, we will continue the coastal road
passing through high cliffs and small fishing villages. We will reach at the end of
the afternoon the desert of Wahiba Sands – one of the most fascinating and
mysterious regions of Oman. We will board 4×4 vehicles and start the adventure
in the desert. The vast, ever shifting dunes support an astonishing variety of
wildlife and host different kinds of flora and fauna. The quick changing patterns
of the dunes are a photographer’s delight. The Wahiba is also home to a few
thousand Bedouins, who are known to have inhabited this inhospitable region for
at least 7000 years. We will do some dunes bashing as our experienced drivers
show their skill on the dune drive which is a thrilling experience.
Dinner in the camp with a real desert atmosphere & Overnight in Wahiba Sands.
DAY 4: TUESDAY- WAHIBA SANDS – NIZWA (200KM)
After breakfast, we will enjoy for the last time the desert and its secrets, before
we board our 4×4 to return to normal civilization. We will then depart to Wadi Bani
Khalid – a lush green valley surrounded by rugged mountains. We will enjoy an
incredible view and a chance to capture the scenic beauty with the cameras. We
will walk in the wadi to investigate the surrounding area on foot. Departure to
NIZWA around noon, we will stop on our way for lunch. After lunch, we will
continue to Nizwa, a great city with a great history. On arrival in NIZWA after
approximately 2- 3 hours, we will do a quick orientation of the city . The ancient
capital of Oman, Nizwa was a seat of learning and the birthplace of Islam in
Oman. The 17th century souq famous for the silver jewelry are the major
attraction of Nizwa, not to mention the popular & interesting cattle auction, which
takes place on every Friday. Built on a scold base of rock, the huge tower was
designed to with stand the vibration of 24 cannons. We will visit the SOUK , and
walk around discovering the old city. Check in the hotel. Dinner.
Overnight in NIZWA.
DAY 5: WEDNESDAY – NIZWA- MUSCAT– DEPARTURE (150KM)
After breakfast, we will continue the visit of Nizwa. Our first sop will be the
charming ancestral village of BIRKAT AL MAWZ at the bottom of the GREEN
mountain, JEBEL AKHDAR. Then we will proceed to the Jabreen Fort .The Jabreen Castle, built in 17th century , is one of the finest of its kind. Its
magnificent plasterwork, the carved doors and the painted wooden beams of the
ceilings makes this castle amazingly different. After we visit the Jabreen castle,
we will drive back towards Nizwa passing the JEBEL SHAMS part of the most
famous Hajar mountains chain in OMAN. We will pass by the oldest small towns
of Oman Bahla with its fort (outside visit). We will stop at the palm groves at Al
Hamra to see its Falaj system. we will stop on our way for lunch. After the visit,
we will proceed to MUSCAT, the Capital. Evening transfer to Muscat Airport for
the departure flight.
Your Hotel accommodation planned for this trip
Below hotels will be booked for this package.
Nizwa : Al Diyar 4* or Similar
Muscat: City Seasons Hotel or similar
* Wahiba: Arabian Oryx 4* or Similar