Arabia's Frankincense Capital: Monsoon Green Mountains, Blowholes & Ancient Trade Routes
📍 Salalah, Oman📅 3-day itinerary
The only city in Arabia that turns green in summer — when the Indian Ocean monsoon hits the Dhofar mountains while the rest of the Peninsula bakes at 45°C — where the trees that supplied frankincense to ancient Egypt, Rome and the Nativity grow wild in a UNESCO grove, and a 35-metre blowhole geyser shoots seawater skyward as dolphins swim past the nesting sea turtle beaches.
Marco Polo's Most Important Incense Port in Ruins at the Arabian Sea Mouth & The Finest Frankincense Market on Earth Where the Transparent White Hojari Grade Commands a Premium
The 3,000-Year-Old Trees That Made the Frankincense Trade Cut Open to Show Their Bleeding Resin & 30-Metre Seawater Geysers Where Monsoon Waves Force Through Limestone Cracks
The Prophet Job's Tomb at 1,000 Metres Where the Arabian Sea and Frankincense Trees Converge & Spinner Dolphins Performing Aerial Spins from a Wooden Boat in the Arabian Sea