On the road to mountain oases
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Where to stay - Barka ?
The map of your stay "On the road to mountain oases"
Detail of the stay : On the road to mountain oases
How to get there - Barka
From Muscat to Wadi Bani Awf
Steps: Rustaq
From Muscat, take road 1 to Muladdah, then road 11 to Al Hazm. Visit the fort (with audio guide). Continue to Rustaq (possible visit of the fort and the hot spring of Ayn Al Kasfah) and then on road 13 to Al Awabi. about 3 km before the village, enter the gorge of the splendid Wadi Bani Awf. Cross the first part of the wadi by a track that first runs along the dry river bed and then goes up to the mountains. Passing through many hamlets as if embedded in the rock, before arriving at Bilad Sayt. Visit of the palm grove and the village. Overnight in the simple but nickel guesthouse of Bait Bimah in the heart of Wadi Bani Awf.
Places of interest : FORT
Misfah
Steps: Misfah
Cross the second section of the wadi, following the track that leads to the summit of Birkat al-Sharaf, the highest pass above the Jebel Akhdar mountain range. Breathtaking slideshow. Then descent to the village of Misfah al Abreyeen and discovery of its palm grove. Lunch break in Misfah. In the afternoon, visit Misfah's small museum, the honey house, stroll along the aflaj amidst the terraced plantations, discover the old village, short signposted hike along the side of a small canyon... Or take part in a sporting activity (canyoning, mountain biking, trekking, etc.) or a guided tour of the oasis to learn all about the ancestral falaj system with Canyon Adventures & Tours. Overnight stay in one of the lovely guesthouses.
