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Tours and Tailor Made Holidays to

Musandam

OMAN
  • CURRENCY Omani Riyal
  • LANGUAGE Arabic & English
  • WEATHER
  • FLYING TIME 7 hrs 10 mins
  • TIME ZONE GMT + 4
  • AIRLINE Emirates

In the midst of all the glitz of the modern Gulf Musandam is a place where life itself moves at a different pace

Tailor Made Holidays to Musandam

At Travel Concierge, we pride ourselves on tailoring holidays to Musandam that are designed around your needs and expectations and not ours. We have a range of Musandam holiday offers that we have negotiated special or exclusive deals on. We can also arrange multi centre Musandam holiday itineraries as well as tours and excursions in Musandam. For more information on our Musandam holidays, call an Travel Concierge tailor-made expert on 0161 729 0099 and speak to one of our reservation experts who will be able to help you plan the perfect holiday in Musandam.

Destination Overview

Just a few hours’ drive from Dubai, the little-visited Musandam Peninsula is a remote patch of land where ancient fishing villages give way to treacherous mountain roads.

Looking at Musandam Peninsula from the sea, you will notice jagged rocks and as you gape upwards, you will be lost in wonder at the scale of the honey-coloured cliffs that rise from nothing and soar to loom more than 200 metres above your head. Gulls circle, arcing out over the sea and back towards their perches on the barren crags. The sea is full of life, but the bluffs, weathered and cracked into dramatic shards, are utterly devoid of even the hardiest plant or shrub. They are like cliffs at the edge of a glorious Martian sea.

Oman’s Musandam Peninsula is a remote patch of planet separated from the rest of the country by a corner of the UAE. The region juts out into the Strait of Hormuz, the key choke point at the eastern end of the Persian Gulf, through which chug scores of oil tankers taking vast quantities of the world’s supply of black gold to Europe, the US and Asia.Long before oil was discovered in Arabia – creating some of the richest countries on Earth and apparently endless demand for Swiss watches and German sports cars – Omanis had built an empire that stretched down Africa’s east coast to Zanzibar. Many will tell you that the Queen of Sheba had her palace in Oman, and that Sinbad the Sailor set sail from one of its ancient ports.

It is hard to overstate the difference between Oman and its neighbours. While the latter have most of the oil and grand building projects and bling, Omanis remain wedded to 5,000 years of history and culture, preserving traditional buildings, opening museums and occasionally bemoaning the flash modernism of their neighbours in the UAE. “Can you believe they built a ski slope, indoors!” an Omani businessman told me with disdain.

In the midst of all the glitz of the modern Gulf, home to vast shopping malls and some of the most luxurious hotels on the planet, Musandam is a place where life itself moves at a different pace: it lacked roads until just a decade ago. With metal-melting temperatures during summer and terrain that needs Thor’s hammer to flatten and tame, the landscape is one of the most dramatic and inhospitable you will ever encounter.Yet Musandam is just a few hours’ drive from Dubai, and reachable for a weekend break. Strike out towards the peninsula along the coast from the brashest of the Emirates and the tip of the Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building – fades behind as you motor through dirty roadside sprawl along tarmac. You pass flaming oil wells, through the emirates of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, before the endless development withers and the straight road begins to buckle towards the Musandam border, where a cliffside track winds around the fractured coast. It is the Gulf, but not as you know it: otherworldly Musandam is not a place for those wanting fusion food and FIJI Water, fine hotels or a Lamborghini showroom. Khasab, the region’s capital, has a splendid fort, built by the Portuguese to keep their sailors supplied with dates and fresh water. The influences of other, more modern, arrivals are being felt- such as the opening of the first supermarket. Yet the little town is not asleep. As you explore, the still air will be broken by the sound of roaring engines, while at the harbour, speedboats power their way out to sea.

Take a boat trip our of Khasab harbour, and you will sail behind dolphins that streak through the water like torpedoes. Despite the tanker motorway a few miles to the north, the waters around Musandam are pristine. Just an hour from Khasab are dive sites with schools of blue and yellow Indian Ocean angelfish, Arabian butterfly fish, snappers, lionfish, groupers, stingrays and turtles. Some experts think the coral of Musandam is among the best in the world due to the absence of heavy industry along the coast and few fishing fleets in the area.

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When to visit Musandam

Do you need inspiration for when to go on holiday to Musandam? Give the team of experts at Travel Concierge a call and we will help you plan your Musandam holiday at the best time of year for your requirements. Although our Musandam holiday search tool will allow you to search for Musandam holiday prices upto 11 months in advance, we can also price holidays to Musandam for 2025 and 2026. We can advise on the best time to travel on your Musandam holiday based on Musandam weather, special events in Musandam or even when the crowds in Musandam are at their lowest.

Top Attractions

You haven't been to a destination until you have seen its most famous attractions! The team at Travel Concierge have put together our recommendations of some of the top attractions in Musandam. If you are looking for advice about the attactions you should visit during your holiday in Musandam, give one of our tailor made holiday experts a call on 0161 729 0099