Ubar ancient city12/27/2023 Please note we require 50% of the payment on confirmation and the balance 4 weeks prior to arrival or the full payment can be settled on confirmation. Tips and porterage (if the service is good, we recommend clients to tip as follows):Īvailability at hotels is subject to confirmation of the tour and travel dates Payment Policy.Any other meals not mentioned as included. Supply of drinking water in the vehicle.Saloon Car/4x4/Van/minibus/Coach as per the program (vehicle according to the number of pax and the locations).Airport transfers with English speaking drivers.Accommodation in selected hotels on Bed & breakfast, Half board or Full board basis.Īir-condition transportation with professionals drivers:.English, Italian, German, French, Spanish speaking guide during all the excursion days. The ancient city of Ubar was important to the lucrative trade of frankincense from about 2800 BC till 300 AD when, according to legend, Allah rebuked its people for squandering their lives and then like the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed the city by sinking it beneath the sand.Experience the Frankincense and its use in the past as well as in the modern World. On the way back to Salalah, drive into Wadi “Dawka” (UNESCO World heritage site) known as the “Frankincense Wadi”, which is also well-known as the biggest collection of the naturally grown Frankincense trees in the region. A breath-taking overview of the vast desert awaits you on the top of the dunes. From the time the city roseroughly 2,000 years ago, according to estimatesuntil its fall between 300 and 500 CE, Ubar grew wealthy as an outpost of the frankincense trade. After walking around the site proceed to the Empty Quarter to experience the “biggest sand desert in the World” by rambling on fascinating sand dunes. In the ancient world, that resin was used to make incense for religious ceremonies and medical practices. Quite literally, it sank without trace -becoming the fabled “Atlantis of the Sands.” This once buried city, which was spotted by satellite, gives you a glimpse of the value of work carried out by a team of explorers in 1992, led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. According to myth, the desert swallowed up Ubar. This legendary ancient kingdom, known as Ubar, was said to have existed in one of the most inhospitable places on earth – a vast and forbidding Rub Al Khali desert, appropriately known as the Empty Quarter. Visit the “Lost City of Ubar” (UNESCO World heritage site), 175km away from Salalah. After having a small break in Thumrait town, which was famous as a Bedouin settlement, proceed west on graded road crossing the huge gravel desert of “Al Nejd”. Start the tour in the morning hours by 4×4 vehicle and drive towards the “Qara” mountain range with its spectacular view of the Salalah plains dotted with thick shrub and woodland.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |