Saffa Travels

13 April 2015

2D's - Dubai and 1 Direction

Dubai has become one of my many favourite cities! It is only a 2 hour drive from Sohar and the journey to Dubai is filled with funny moments with my friends in the car. The main reason for the weekend was the One Direction concert on the Saturday. Somewhat reluctant to go see the boy band, my friends convinced me to go along.

We went all touristy and saw a few sights over the weekend. One of the many highlights was going up the Burj Khalifa for the second time, but this time at night. Dubai doesn't disappoint when it comes to a vibrant nightlife. To see Dubai from the sky was awesome! A big thanks to my friends for an awesome weekend!

Safe travels

Phillip

Dubai Mall Aquarium

World famous restaurant

Any child's best shop

In the souq

Spice souq

My friends

Souq

Ocean Basket (A favourite restaurant from South Africa found in Dubai)

From the Burj Khalifa

Observation deck - Burj Khalifa

Mini model of the Dubai Mall and outside fountain

7 March 2015

My first exhibition

I can tick one of my bucket list items off! I were part of our school's Art exhibition and 15 of my photos were on display. What a proud moment! The event took place at the Sohar Souq Gallery. It took some time to sort out the best ones, but it was all worth it! Here are a few photos that were on display!

Safe travels!

Phillip

7 February 2015

Road trip in Oman - Feb 2015

When you buy a new car, the next logic step is to test it out. That's what we've done in our one week holiday early in February. We took the road all the way to Jebel Shams Heights Resort, where we have spent the night in . It was freezing up in the mountains and sleeping in a tent didn't really helped. The next morning we packed up and drove to the Bidiya Desert for some cool 4x4 driving.

Early the next morning we drove all the way to Sur to spent the night in a hotel. Many of you don't know this, but in Oman you can basically camp anywhere, but with that advantage comes the disadvantage that there are no ablution facilities. So spending the night at the hotel was somewhat compulsory for us.

When in Sur, a visit to the Ras Al Jinz is a great night time activity. We saw how a Green turtle laid her eggs on the beach and witnessed how she disappeared into the ocean. It is the only place where the public can see this nesting process. It was definitely a bucket list moment! Unfortunately we were not allowed to take any pictures.

After breakfast we went to our last destination on this short road trip. We've set up camp on the beautiful beach of As Sifa, not far from the capital city Muscat. We've spent 2 days on this beach and were the only campers in sight.

Thanks to all of my fellow road trippers! It was a fun time and we should do it again!