Oman tour, a week in Oman

Accommodation and Meals:
On this trip, we will stay most nights in hotels and 1 night in a traditional Bedouin style tent at a desert camp in Wahiba Sands. Most of the employees in the accommodations are locals and they try to source local produce wherever possible. This ensures that our visit directly benefits the locals. When food is not provided, our local guide will encourage and recommend clients to visit local restaurants and cafes to try local cuisine which is heavily influenced by Arab, Persian, Indian, Asian, Eastern Mediterranean and African cuisine hence dishes are full of rich mixtures of spices, herbs and marinades.

Activity:
On the trip, we also visit the Ras Al jinz turtle reserve, one of the most popular nesting grounds for turtles in the world. Clients will experience an excursion guided by an ecologist to witness the fascinating scene of sea turtles nesting in a completely natural environment. This is done in an intimate fashion without the fear of interrupting the creatures themselves. The center aims to educate both locals and tourists on the human induced threats that these magnificent reptiles face and how we can help to conserve them.

Water:
Water is a really important issue with trips such as this and whilst we must stay hydrated, it is also vital that we have a system for providing clean water without causing lots of waste with plastic bottles. Wherever possible we provide safe alternative sources of water to buying single use plastic bottles. This may be through large water containers, or encourage our passengers to filter, sterilise or purify water. We encourage all our passengers to come prepared with a reusable water bottle for this purpose.

Group Size:
This is a small group tour, meaning that we have a low impact on the environments and communities we visit and are able to ensure that we do not disrupt or lead to the displacement of local people. The small number also allows us to stay in unique, family-run hotels that cannot benefit from coach tours and other mass tourism due to their limited sizes.

UK Office:
It all starts at home where we work towards reducing our carbon footprint in our offices through energy conservation measures, recycling policies and the promotion of cycling and walking as a means for our staff to commute. Our head office has become a plastic-free zone with the use of plastic bottles being banned in our head office and we distributed reusable water bottles and tote bags to every staff member. We also support a large number of community and environmental projects in different parts of the world and try to give something back to the places we visit.