The Nizwa tourist bazaar was closed (Eid can be a bit troublesome for tourists), but most of the stuff is left out overnight so we could get an idea of what there was to buy.
Posing in front of Bahla Fort. This was as close as we could get to the inside due to Eid (did I mention Eid can be annoying?).
One of the cool things about Eid Mubarak is that everyone is busy buying up animals to sacrifice and pass around the neighborhood. Lots of terrified creatures in the back of trucks.
A hot spring in Rustaq. The water was painfully hot, but not as smelly as I expected (I could only think of the hot springs we used to visit as kids in Thermopolis, Wyoming). There were men's shower stalls next door, but Tammy was not happy when we couldn't find the women's stalls (she assumed this was another time when women were completely left out of the fun). After a 1/2 mile drive downstream we found the female bathing stalls, but the idea of splashing around in all of the removed dirt coming from upstream wasn't too appealing, so we headed to our next spot...
These are the views of/from Nakhal Fort. This place is ridiculously gorgeous. If I lived nearby I would come up here all the time at sunset to look out over the date fields. This was a great way to reflect on our last night in the country and think about all the amazing things we had seen during our brief trip in Oman.
Getting ready to return the car, but first a quick stop by the Sultan Qaboos Mosque. This place is big. Our Mitsubishi doesn't look that bad for having just rocked 1000 miles in a few days around the desert, coastline, and mountains.
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