Wadi Dayqah near Muscat

Oasis tucked away in the Hajjar mountains, Wadi Arbayyin

Wadi Arbayyin

Watchtowers are common in the Omani landscape; some are Portuguese but most are from the times when the Ya’ariba and Al Bu Said families ruled Oman

The Hajjar mountains

Wadi Arbayyin

The Fort at Mirbat, held by 9 SAS men and a handful of clerks against 500 enemy in 1972

The Jiddat el-Harasis desert

Crossing the Tropic of Cancer south of Muscat

Beach camp south of Muscat