Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Alec Russell’s dhow, Dhahab, off the Musandam Peninsula The sun had long disappeared over the mountains to our left ...

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18 April 2010 MUSCAT -- Muscat's Port Sultan Qaboos played host to a trio of luxury cruise liners over the weekend, affording passersby along the corniche a spectacle more reminiscent of European ...

DOTTED with craggy mountains and rocky islands, Khasab town in northern Oman seems to be in a world of its own. This coastal exclave is renowned for its turquoise fjords, where dolphins often trail ...

I count my blessings when I wake to a spectacular day in the Musandam Peninsula for a dhow ride through the khors, or inlets, of this remote territory, known as an exclave or outpost of Oman.