Onward to Salalah! (صلالة)

After our orientation in Musqat, we came to Salalah, in the south of Oman. (We flew -- its about an hour flight). Salalah is the biggest city in the south of Oman, and gets much larger in the summer, with the influx of huge numbers of tourists here to visit during the Khareef -- the name for the Monsoon Season here.

It is the capital of the southern Dhofar region of Oman, and borders Yemen!

So even though Salalah is the second largest city in Oman, the population as of the 2005 census was only 178,469.


Here is a map of Oman showing where Salalah is.


You can also see its strategic placement, close to the other Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE) and right across the Gulf of Oman from Iran!

Pictures and stories of Salalah to follow!