Private or Group Full Day Wadi Shab and the East Coast From Muscat

Sightseeing  :  Oman  :  Muscat Governorate  :  Muscat  :  Day Trips

For a mix of mountains and valleys, then this day tour offers a remarkable attractions including dramatic mountain scenery, coastal cliffs and steep, date palm fringed Wadi Shab. This tour gives time inside a spectacular wadi and includes time for 'wild swimming'. Tour in 4WD, distance approx  450 kms. Lunch in local restaurant is included.Be picked up from your hotel in Muscat at 09.00am. If you would like a mix of mountains and valleys, then this is a great trip for you. Wadi Shab and the East Coast offers a remarkable range of attractions including dramatic mountain scenery, coastal cliffs and steep, date palm fringed valleys. The limestone mountains southeast of Muscat rise from the sea up to almost 2000 meters. Over the millennia they have been deeply cut into and today steep sided narrow valleys, locally called wadis, cut into the slopes. Springs of water allow small intensive agricultural farms to grow dates, citrus, mangos and other tropical fruit.

Drive through the chain of mountains which encircle Muscat. The stark scenery creates an almost lunar landscape until the glittering waters of the sea are reached, some 100 kilometers later. The coastal settlement of Tiwi is set at the mouth of the picturesque Wadis Shaab and Tiwi. Golden honey coloured mountains hang precipitously above dark green date oasis. Along the bottom of either wadi attractive walks can be taken alongside small streams of water, fed by small water springs set into the wadi’s side.

After lunch the return to Muscat could include a swim in the remarkable sinkhole at Bimmah where the waters from a wadi have run underground and created a now collapsed cavern.