Situated in northern Oman, in the Al Batinah region is the tiny coastal town of Barka, which is now coming up as a tourist resort with plenty of construction work being carried out for the sole purpose of tourism. The town is an hour’s drive from the capital city Muscat. The town has two major [...]

Sohar in Al Batinah lies 200 kilometers north of Muscat, the capital of Oman and at an equal distance south of Dubai. The city, originally a fishing town was once the ancient capital of the Sultanate of Oman, but today it is a significant and massive industrial port and the most urbanized city in the [...]