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Long time ago, Qalhat would have been buzzing with different activities. One of history’s successful harbour cities, it once welcomed ships from India, Yemen and Dhofar and it hosted thousands of...

A trip to Jabal Akhdhar will not be complete without passing through the now abandoned old village of Wadi Bani Habib. Here, crumbling houses that hang on the side of the cliff makes for a...

There’s something very familiar about Anglo-Portuguese Joana Mollet’s artwork currently gracing the walls of the Centre Franco Omanais at Al Inshirah St, Muscat. Launched on the evening of June 11...

The Weekend Warrior -  One of the many things that surprised me last week is the discovery that many companies in Oman, regardless of how established they are, do not have a proper marketing and...

Yeru Ebuen - weekendwarrior.now@gmail.com - Monday evening was the official launch of one of my colleagues’ book. A permanent fixture in the media scene in the Sultanate, it’s seldom that you...

    When one hears of Wadi al Hoqeen, a picture of a flowing man-made dam surrounded by lush vegetation always comes to mind. Even a quick search on Google yields different versions of this image...

YERU EBUEN & TITASH CHAKRABORTY - The history of ramen is quite contentious but one thing is clear, the Japanese has improved on it and truly claimed it to be their own. When you can’t decide if...

YERU EBUEN & TITASH CHAKRABORTYV - Qantab is barely an hour away from Muttrah but despite being so near, there’s not much that has been said about it. In the Sultanate today, it is known for its...

Yeru Ebuen - weekendwarrior.now@gmail.com - On Thursday of last week, a colleague told me that he was planning to leave early from work because he made a commitment to his mother and sister to...

Like a kid, you would want to scream. But you can’t because the air turbulence is too strong and the machine is so loud it will just drown everything that comes from your mouth. For those who’ve...

   Everyone was aware that one way, the trek is going to take about 8 hours. The ultimate destination is an island. Along the way, they were told of amazing mountain formations, of roads less...

Yeru Ebuen  - yeru.ebuen@gmail.com - There’s nothing more important to millennials than work-life balance and personal and career growth. With a career spanning over 10 years, I’ve seen...

 From the luxurious balcony of Anantara, one can see three villages that during this time of the year, are lush and verdant green. The terraced gardens are hard to identify from such distance but...

   Gdynia is miles away from Oman. Although very different in a lot of ways, the one feature it shares with the Sultanate is that it is also a port city. Gdynia is one of the cities that make up...

Very early each morning, especially on weekends, staff and personnel of the Ras al Jinz Turtle Reserve comb the long stretch of isolated beach surrounded by tall mountains on both ends in this remote...

I was planning to take a quick swim at the pool on the ground floor area of my building, my usual morning routine, when an email sent to our Observer account caught my attention. It was a two...

A lot of them have been dried out by the sun. They needed retouching but despite so, they continue to tell the story of tales that they were designed for. It was an ambitious project when it was...

Shared Thoughts There was a time that I really like photography. I still do now but not with the same zest that I used to have. I just rediscovered it over the weekend thanks to the help of a great...

   A few kilometres away from Muscat Hills Dive Resort, the new name of Oman Dive Centre, a 3000-ton vessel sits at the bottom of the ocean. It was sunk by the Royal Navy of Oman in 2003 and...

Far beyond the popular Wadi Dayqah Dam towards villages quite forgotten by time are serpentine roads no one would ever believe were there. These were unpopular roads heading towards Wadi al Arbeieen....