Asian Countries: Self-Drive Holiday Story

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I have ever driven in Oman 2 to 3 years, LHD,

 

I drove in Oman for two years back in 1976.

Driving Mazda 929 when based in Muscat.

No roads out of Oman then so furthest I drove was up to Nizwa and Sohar.

Any further than that and I used the company plane a Piper Navaho.

We crashed in that taking off from Bukha in the Musandam and the plane was a write off so we bought a DH Twin Otter. Great that was but another story.

 

When based in Salalah i drove a very old Land Rover but even then very reliable.

I was doing a Geolgical survey on an area of 1000 sq km east of Mirbat.

No sat nav, no maps, no roads just a compass for fixing position. It was just after the terrorist campaign in Dhofar was ending and we used to hear a lot of gunfire at night and the SAF had to accompany us when we were sampling in some areas.

In fact 6 ex pats were murdered by the rebels while snorkelling off Taqah beach, an area we had surveyed the day before.