A swim in the sea

After a very long day of meetings, our guest house host, Faisal Lamki invited us to the opd clubhouse. We swam in the sea and had a lovely dinner

picture of Omani life

A place mat from a local restaurant

Growing the plants

The aim of the Oman Botanic Gardens is to have all of the different kinds of plants which grow all over Oman in one place. They are learning how to grow them all from seeds and cuttings.

Oman Botanic Gardens

We had a great opportunity to meet Aliya and Sarah from the Oman Botanic Gardens. It's a huge project which they hope will be completed in the next 2 years. Despite being in portocabins they already have a visitors centre and have school groups visiting. They build 8 huege glasshouses to start growing plants in and they are now filling up with plants they have grown from seeds or cuttings.

Here's Aliya showing us the model of the plan for the site of the Botanic Gardens.

Faisal's guest house

muscat through the car window

Taking a break from meetings