Comments on: The True Muslims of Oman

By: Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:37:11 +0000

We REALLY hope to see you two again soon! I’m so excited for you to soon be in my country! Wish you’d start up the Pin Project blog again so I can follow along your journey! 🙂

By: Nikos&Georgia

Nikos&Georgia — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:47:13 +0000

We cant believe your story! You are awesome. We think it was the perfect payback after so long travel experience. Full respect to the Omani people off course.

Keep rolling guys. Nobody can stop you from taking the most from this world!

Safe travels and love each other. See you somewhere somehow 😉

Lots of love – lots of kisses

Nikos&Georgia

By: Brittany

Brittany — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:07:54 +0000

What a fantastic story, and very similar to our experience! Yes, the man you mentioned is the same young, curly-haired, Westernized Saudi man that we dealt with. What a gem he is and such a blessing to us travelers passing through Khartoum. Congratulations, and wishing you a very safe ferry ride and a fantastic time in the Middle East! I am struggling to get my visa for Iran (since last year they have made it impossible for Canadians and English to get tourist visas) so I may have to wait in Turkey for Bruno to drive through Iran. Alas, that’s part of the adventure, isn’t it! 🙂

By: Brittany

Brittany — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:03:17 +0000

Thanks for your comments, mom and dad. It was an emotional couple of days followed by an unbelievable turn of events that taught me a lot about the world. I guess that’s what travel is about, isn’t it?

By: rcs

rcs — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 22:46:04 +0000

This is a great story and best of all you were able to capture the key characters in pictures. Must have been scary when you cannot understand what is happening and not being able to argue your position. But we can continue to have faith in man; not putting blame on innocent behavior.

By: Ans and Tom

Ans and Tom — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:20:22 +0000

Dear Brittany and Bruno,
We loved reading the blog about Dubai. We hope to visit it one time, but not on this trip. What a story you wrote about your entrance in Oman. And how beautiful to met such nice people on a moment that you most need it. This is what makes traveling an addiction and what is traveling about.
We are at the coast of the Red Sea waiting untill 11th to sail to SA!! We also got our visa …. And quick. We first whent to the embassy with all the papers in a map. Without our Jordan visa, because we europeans do not need a visa for Jordan they told us at their embassy. We did not get to the agent first. We also had put a name at a small paper of an employe that we found on the net. We think it was the same nice man you met and had tea with. After being inside a man behind the counter said we had to arange thing with the agent and come back today. We went and they organized the paperwork and we paid. Then back to the embassy, but the frontgate was closed. At an other entrance we had to wait 5 minutes and got inside. At the office we met te person wich name we wrote on the piece of paper. He was the consul and worked here just for 5 month. Before tat h worked for 9 years at the embassy in Holland. So we talked a while. No tea allthough we brought the biscuit just incase. In the meantime our visa where put in our passports. YES. He gave us his bussinesscard and email if something append in Sudan or SA. Very kind. This all took us 2 hours. Is this a world record? In our guesthouse in Karthoum there was a dutch guy and a Canadian friend who wants to cross SA with public bus to Bahrein. They where allready waiting for 5 days with the ixer for the visa. They where desperate. We gave theme our bussinesscard, maybe it can help. The next day they had there visa……. Everybody happy!
So next week we will starting traveling north to Jordan, Israel and then shippig to Greece. Then, one week later (around half of april) we will be home.

We wish you a save journey and hope to read more on your blog.
With love, Ans and Tom

By: Elizabeth Sears

Elizabeth Sears — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:27:29 +0000

What a heart-warming ending to this experience, Brittany! I can really feel your gratitude to the individuals involved. Thanks to your and Bruno’s mishap, the future repositioning of the cameras will ensure that no other tourists suffer a similar accident.