Muscat

Muscat, Oman

Muscat unfurls like a watercolor of sea, stone and sunlight: gleaming white villas tuck into the slopes of the Hajar Mountains, ancient forts stand guard over a sapphire harbor.

Muscat unfurls like a watercolor of sea, stone and sunlight: gleaming white villas tuck into the slopes of the Hajar Mountains, ancient forts stand guard over a sapphire harbor, and silver-trimmed dhows bob against a sky that seems almost too clear.