Judith Diane's Amazing Adventures: SALALAH

Salalah صلالة
City

Salalah Location of Salalah in Oman
Coordinates: 17°01′11″N 54°05′23″ECoordinates: 17°01′11″N 54°05′23″E
Country	Oman
Muhafadha	Dhofar
Government
• Type	Absolute Monarchy
• Sultan	Qaboos bin Said
Population (2016)
• Metro	340,815
Time zone	Oman standard time (UTC+4)
Website	www.OMANet.om

Salalah (Arabic: صلالة‎‎ transliterated Ṣalālah), is the capital and seat of the wali (governor) of the southern Omani province of Dhofar. Its population in 2009 was 197,169.^[1]
Salalah is the second largest city in the Sultanate of Oman, and the largest city in the Dhofar Province. Salalah is the birthplace of the current sultan, Qaboos bin Said. Salalah attracts lots of people from other parts of Oman and the Persian Gulf region during the khareef season, which spans from July to September. The climate of the region and the monsoon allows the city to grow some vegetables and fruits like coconut.

On the tour bus, going to the oasis

Arabic

A moonscape with water

New buildings everywhere

The country home?

Townhouses, especially for Europeans - according to the guide

Administrative building and home for the administrator

One of the few lawns along the route

Mostly, it looked like this

Service stops here?

The compound for one, extended family, said the guide, but it looked more like mosques and schools

The oasis - finally

I thought, at first, that the "film" was broken but this is a digital camera - it's the step

There were workers, barefoot, in the water, despite the sign

First warning - bad translation

Any ornithologists reading this ?? What kind of bird ?

Now, on the way to visit the palace of the Queen of Sheba - regardless of what the Yemenis claim!

Guarding the park

Khor Rorī (Arabic خور روري) is an Early South Arabian archaeological site near Salalah in the Dhofar region of modern Oman. The small fortified town was founded as an outpost for the kingdom of Ḥaḑramawt around the 1st century CE, but the site shows signs of Ḥaḑramite settlement back to the 2nd century BCE.^[1] The settlement was probably abandoned in the seventh century.
Inscriptions at Khor Rori reports that the town, called "Sumhuram" (Old South Arabian s₁mhrm), was founded on royal initiative and settled by Ḥadramite emigrants. Dhofar was the main source of frankincense in the ancient period, and it seems likely that the foundation of the settlement was in part motivated by a Ḥaḑramite wish to control the production of this valuable commodity. Most scholars identify Khor Rori with the frankincense exporting port of Moscha Limen mentioned in this region in the 1st century CE merchants guide Periplus Maris Erythraei.
Khor Rorī / Sumhuram was first discovered by James Theodore Bent during his travels in the region in the late 19th century. The site has been excavated by the American Foundation for the Study of Man (AFSM) in the early 1950s and by the Italian Mission to Oman (IMTO) since 1994. The excavations have uncovered the ground plan of the settlement and has attested maritime contacts with the Ḥaḑramite homeland, India and the Mediterranean. It was inscribed in 2000, along with other sites along the Incense Route in Oman, as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Land of Frankincense"^[1]