Yesterday, April 2, we were in Fujairah. We had a 5 hour bus tour around the east coast of the city. Mostly desert with lots of construction going on. It will never catch up to Dubai, but it was interesting. Sorry no pics, as we had a friend take our camera card to format a disc.
Today we arrived in Muscat. We were here last year and we took one of our private car options to see more of the city. Our friend and travel escort, Kevin, saw us off in our car. (See first Picture). Our driver was Mohammed and our guide was Alok, who was from India. We visited several of the upscale resort hotels and the souk for shopping. We bought nothing, as I think we are on shopping overload. We drove by the Mosque, which was not open to the public, and we drove up to one of the Royal Palaces. There is a lot of new construction going on, but they build it first and then a company will purchase and occupy it after it is already built. It is a very clean city and people are very friendly.
Unfortunately, our trip is ending on April 19th or 20th. The engine could not be repaired and the company did not feel it was safe to cross the Atlantic on one engine. The ship will go into drydock somewhere in Europe after they have disembarked everyone. We don't know exactly what day we will arrive home, but there is a lot of packing and organizing to do as the ship will send most of our luggage home for us. We have a 7 day stretch of sea days until we reach Safaga on April 11. Packing will commence in the next day or so.
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