Tuesday, April 17, 2012

MEMORIES OF SALALAH,OMAN AND TO THE MEMRY OF MY COUSIN.....


I got an opportunity to visit Oman for a week  in the first week of April 2012, as one of my cousin's who  was sick  requested me to join him in Salalah.We hired a car and travelled in and around Salalah where we were based visiting places ,capturing special movements on camera.

P.S. The sad new is my cousin passed away due to the illness  in October 2012 and I feel I did the right thing by been with him when he needed someone. This post will now be dedicated to him .May Rajiv my cousin attain the supreme bliss of Nirwana.

Landing at Muscat Airport

Flying above mountains en route to SALALAH

Oman's building style seen from above

Sunset

Abyssinian White Eye

Afrikan Silverbill

S[potted Thick nee

Making that extra effort to keep it green

White spectacled BULBUL

Eurasian Collard Dove

Laughing Dove

Crested Lark

Doctors Quarters in which we were based

This is what these regions are popular for

My cousin clicking

nice scenery




Hotel Marriott in Mirbat


Tristram's Starling

Famous Sand Dunes






Cinamon Breasted Bunting



Egyptian Vulture

Graceful Prinia

Ruppells Weaver


Hotel HILTON in Raisut


Common Greenshank

House Crow




Ruddy Turnstone

Heuglins Gull

A sooty Gull amused by this Crab

Eurasian Curlew

Common Redshank


Road network through the mountains

Subarbs of Salalah

Eurasian Orange Martin

Al-Baleed Museum

Excavations


Common Moorehen



Steppe Eagle


Sanderling




Western REEF HERON


Beach in Mughsayl




The breathtaking BLOWHOLES in Mughsayl






Road ways in Dalkut close to Yemeni Boarder


The famous Frankincense Tree in Wadi Darbat


A native Omani




Osprey

GREY HERON

Glossy Ibis

A mosque in the desert

 Sooty Gulls in the pier in Raisut


Singing Bushlark

Caspien TERN


Saunders TERN

Greater CRESTED TERNS

Eurasian Oyster Catcher







Grey Plover

Lulu Hyper Market in Salalah CITY

The Sultan Qaboos  Mosque

Rose ringed PAROTS outside the window

Hen Harrier


Ain Hamran nature forest


Blackstart


Ruppells Weaver Nests





Breathtaking Sunrise in Sequense ,35000 feet above enroute to Sri Lanka





Flying over densed clouds

Just before landing at Katunayake Airport