Thursday, August 16, 2007

Turtle Beach Resort

Well this place is a real paradise! I have never seen such beauty and such perfection. The fact that it's close to the Turtle Beach reserve makes it a thrilling experience. I got to see the giant sea turtles come out of water, dig a 1st hole in the sand, lay their eggs, cover them, take time to dig a second hole to lure the predators away of its eggs and return to the sea...
All this happens at night between 9 pm and 5 am. We were forbidden to use camera flashes to take pictures so we just took our pictures at the lights of the battery torshes that the rangers used to show us the magnificient creatures. I managed to take a few good shots though ;-)

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Shinas bunch...


Hi these people are the teachers at Shinas college of technology...

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Corniche Tower

The flat I rented (for three nights) in the Corniche Tower was so beautiful with a great view. It was immaculately clean and of course being in the 18th floor it was so quite I could get the best sleep ever :)



I particularly like this picture because Faty is wearing her black Abaya which makes a beautiful contrast with her fair skin. I like the fact that we both appear in the picture :)))

Abu Dhabi 2


Still more pictures of the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. I liked its wide streets and high buildings, but above all I loved the fact of meeting with my lovely cousins and hanging around with them :)


Abu Dhabi


Of course I wouldn't miss the opportunity of being so close to the UAE and not paying a visit to my cousins Meriem and Fatima Zahra. They were soooooooooooooooo happy to have me in their city Abu Dhabi and I was happy to visit the city and to spend the most wonderful time with them. I rented a flat at the 18th floor of the same tower where Meriem lives and I had the best view of Abu Dhabi that you could ever get :)))


Oman


Well here I'm again with soooooooooooooooooo much to say that I don't know where to start from.

Well first things first, I'm in the Sultanate of Oman right now, a country that I didn't know much about before (except for the fact that I had a friend working here). I got here in Seeb Airport in Muscat on the 12th of May at 10h30 in the morning. As I walked out of the plane and the heat hit me on the face I thought it was heat from the plane reactor that was near the plane's exit. I thought to myself "Well they must be crazy to have the plane door right next to the engine!" Of course I was wrong. It was just the heat, the stifling heat that I still didn't get used to!!!