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Wahiba Sands

OMAN
  • CURRENCY Omani Riyal
  • LANGUAGE Arabic
  • WEATHER
  • FLYING TIME 8 hrs
  • TIME ZONE GMT + 4

A huge, virtually uninhabited swathe of sand, with towering dunes, reaching almost 100m

Tailor Made Holidays to Wahiba Sands

At Travel Concierge, we pride ourselves on tailoring holidays to Wahiba Sands that are designed around your needs and expectations and not ours. We have a range of Wahiba Sands holiday offers that we have negotiated special or exclusive deals on. We can also arrange multi centre Wahiba Sands holiday itineraries as well as tours and excursions in Wahiba Sands. For more information on our Wahiba Sands 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 Wahiba Sands.

Destination Overview

Described as “a perfect specimen of sand sea”, the magnificent Wahiba Sands are located South of Ibra.

Wahiba Sands is is the desert as you’ve always imagined it: a huge, virtually uninhabited swathe of sand, with towering dunes, reaching almost 100m in places, sculpted by the wind into delicately moulded crests and hollows.

There are no permanent settlements in the sands except for the tourist camps, although some local Bedouins still live here in somewhat ramshackle temporary encampments. Wahiba is hauntingly empty, except for the areas where endless tracks churned up by cavorting dune-bashers tearing around the sands in their souped-up 4WDs. As a general rule of thumb, the further into the sands you penetrate, the more dramatic and untouched the landscape becomes.

The dunes themselves follow a surprisingly regular pattern, as a glance at Google Earth makes strikingly clear, running in long lines from north to south – an orderly sequence of so-called “linear” dunes formed by the conflicting winds blowing in from the eastern and southern coasts (and meaning that travelling across the sands from north to south is significantly easier than tackling them from east to west). They are also constantly on the move, shifting inland at an estimated rate of 10m per year.

The principal attraction of a visit here is simply the chance to be out among the dunes, and to spend a night in the desert. All the camps lay on various desert activities. Dune-bashing is a popular, if not particularly restful or environmentally friendly, way of exploring the sands; camel or horse rides (sometimes guided by local Bedu) offer a more peaceful alternative, while other activities include sandboarding, trekking and quad-biking.

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When to visit Wahiba Sands

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