Khasab, Kumzar and Hormuz Hospitality
For me, every new country has an Expat bucket list. These are the things that you "must" do before leaving the country. The easiest and number one on my list for Dubai was a sea kayak trip around the northern tip of the Musandam Penisula. The Peninsula is an Omani exclave seperated from the rest of Oman by the UAE and which forms the southern shore of the Straits of Hormuz. A larger type of Omani fishing boat. Still a very traditional design. Prior to 1971, the UK administered the Trucial States or Trucial Oman. The was a loose connection of sheikdoms with little formal government and included Bahrain and Qatar. The British wanted to withdraw from the region but there was much debate between the sheikhs about control of regions. In the end, Bahrain and Qatar withdrew from the process and established their own states and in each of the remaining regions the locals were asked to identify with a sheikh as a mechanism for determining control. Musandam identif