The Oman, the second largest country of the Arabian Peninsula, is considered the Wonderland Arabia. Breathtaking scenery, rugged mountains, deep canyons, sandy beaches and steep cliffs at 1,700 kilometers of coastline, fascinating sand and gravel deserts, lush green oases and large date plantations provide a varied holiday backdrop. Short flight times and plenty of sunshine invite you to leave Oman . request Oman holiday
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Imagine just before that in 1970 only ten kilometers roads in the country was, that's 309 500 square kilometers in area with almost as large as the Federal Republic of Germany.
radios were banned until 1970 because they were seen as the work of the devil.
A health care was virtually nonexistent. 1970 there was only one missionary hospital in Muscat Muttrah in the province. Only three schools existed throughout the state.
The Oman was an internationally isolated state with no ties to other Arab or Islamic countries.
This isolation and persistence in the Middle Ages reflected the lives of Omanis. It even went so far that curfews were imposed and everyone outside the city walls after the curfew was met with a lantern, was shot at with guns.
40 years growth
In just 40 years built multi-lane highways and roads to the most remote oasis village, schools, universities, modern hospitals. The many construction cranes tell of heavy investment in the sparsely populated country.
wealth of the Sultanate of Oman
The juxtaposition of fairy tales and modern country in Oman particularly fascinate. For the Sultanate of Oman is like no other country on the Gulf Coast managed to master a perfect medieval past and progress.
The Omanis were up to 1970 poor and disadvantaged. Many wealthy and educated people had left the country to seek their fortunes abroad. One of the first challenges was the "brain drain" to turn around and pick the emigrants to return home.
The catapult launch from the Middle Ages to modernity owe the Omanis in particular their Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said and the oil wealth.
oil production in Oman
began the search for oil in the 1920s. The D'Arcy Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, led by a first unsuccessful geological investigation. The Second World War and other events interrupted exploration until 1962. First it was successful in drilling Yibal, Natih and Fahud. Oil production began in 1967th
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