Journal de la Carto - January 2015
Tourism

Tourism is developping (except in the south, for security reasons, because boarders aren't precisely defined with Saoudi Arabia, for example). This country benefits from the decrease of attractivity of others countries in the mediterranean area.

Springs, named wadis, are very beautiful and bring very pure water from the mountain.

Oman owns numerous hotels on the coast. They host families that came for the sun and to trek in 4x4 in the desert.


Oman and France

There had been contacts between France and Oman since the 17th century with, as it always occurs, incidents with Britain.

There is almost a french-omani story in Mascate and a museum in celebrating it.

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