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THE WEEKEND WARRIOR - yru.weekend@gmail.com I attended a couple of events over the weekend and a party without the right kind of music might as well be dead. In Oman today, the party scene has...

THE WEEKEND WARRIOR - yru.weekend@gmail.com Last week, I had a little bit of free time to reconnect with a friend. We used to spend hours talking not only about work but about life in general. She...

In 2017, Forbes has reported that the beauty industry is valued at almost $500 billion. Another research has shown that an average woman will spend almost $15,000 on beauty products in her lifetime...

Ashkarah is deceptive, beguiling. These are the two things you should know if you’ll ever make the drive towards this village located about 312 km from Muscat. Once you’re within its arms, do not...

Cycling hobbyist Hamdoon Sultan reached out to us on Instagram to tell us about his recent trip to Yemen. Since we’d been championing and encouraging people to send in their stories to be featured...

[caption id="attachment_483602" align="alignright" width="300"] To get details about this trip, don’t forget to follow our travel partner, Oman Outdoor Adventure on Facebook and...

The concept of relocation and lifestyle management is not something new in the Sultanate. But it may come as a surprise to many especially the nationals who seldom face the dilemma of moving to a...

I know a beautiful place. I’m going to tell you how amazing it is. But I’m not going to tell you how to find it. The noise of the crashing waves as they reached the shore was deafening but it...

She meticulously tied the scarf to hide her face from the sun. It was noon and wasn’t really ideal for walking. Oman Outdoor Adventure group through Ahmed al Jaabri which she contacted to organise...

The small coastal town of Al Jazir is barely visible on the map but if you are traversing the coastal road leading to Salalah, this is an important fork in the road that gets you there. Al Jazir is a...

Rustaq as a city maintained its old-world charm. Once a capital of Oman, it is full of historically significant structures that visiting it earns one a profound insight into the changes that had swept...

THE WEEKEND WARRIOR yeru.ebuen@gmail.com I recently receive a direct message on my LinkedIn account where a young man currently working as a content consultant wanted to shift or change job and...

Muscat, Aug 12 - What do you do if the traffic line is long? While traffic-abiding motorists wait for their turn, some try to cut through the line, endangering their lives as well as those around...

Salem al Hajri is more comfortable behind the camera than having the camera pointed at him. He made this very clear on the onset. He shared that he likes it best when he tells peoples story through...

So you think you know Salalah? While you may assume that the glossy pictures shared on magazines or newspapers or even the viral ones rounding the social media speak for what can be found there, they...

Weekends make Salalah a definite tourist spot. If you are like us who arrived here on a Friday afternoon, you’d see perhaps one of the longest traffic experienced in Oman while entering the city...

Hassan always looks forward to the weekend. His room which is filled with adventure gears like ropes, safety helmets, life jackets and hiking boots usually needed tidying up but because of his busy...

In one of the treks organised by the people behind Oman Outdoor Adventure which I joined recently, I got into an interesting discussion with one of the participants about the availability of jobs in...

With 2.3 million followers on Instagram and another 116k on Twitter, Kuwait’s Sondos Alqattan is your typical successful social media influencer — beautiful, entitled and possessed an air that she...

If you’d been to Muscat Grand Mall on July 17 and 18, chances are, you came face to face with rocks enclosed in glass cases with different labels attached to them. You might be one of the hundreds...