weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

After the open space and solitude of the Wahiba Sands desert, we move back into the more hectic life of a small interior town: Sinaw is an old town, considered to be one of the most vital markets in the eastern region of Oman. It is an urban city with some rural features, due to the surrounding desert.

In this set, we will visit the central produce market and meet some goats.

I hope you will like these market pictures and look forward to your comments and questions.
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1 - Vendor set up in the parking lot outside the actual market with his cereals

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2 - Precious and colorfully wrapped cargo going to the market

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3 - Various vegetables, at right bitter melons (bitter gourd)

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4 - Pomegranates and mangoes

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5 - Fresh garlic by the big bag (vampires don't get a chance here!) - Fine print: Product of China!

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6 - Pretty in pink: Mangoes

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7 - Bedouin man with his animals for sale

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8 - Side-portrait of a goat

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9 - Goat with a beautiful white crown-like set of hair on the forehead

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10 - Portrait of a goat: Anglo-Nubian goat with large, pendulous ears

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MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

Very colorful and interesting captures we don't see every day.... please post more; we don't see a lot of middle eastern culture and every day life.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

A great set. But a camel in the bed of a Toyota?

Mario22 Loc: Albany, NY

I’ve never really given goats much thought. I don’t like or dislike them. But, I do very much like photo #10, the portrait of the Anglo-Nubian goat. You captured a very detailed image with a friendly or likable expression on the goat. Very nicely done. Thank you for sharing photos from the Middle East. If this pandemic ever ends, I will be visiting the region next year.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

No sand and no water, it took me a while to adjust to the goats (LOL).

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much MrBob for looking in on our tour and your kind comment. I don't know whether you managed to see the posts I already did, if not, I invite you to go back and have a look at the ongoing series. (Click on my name besides my avatar, click on the number of topics created and the whole series opens there). The tour will go on for quite a while yet, there will be some (in my opinion) exciting images of the animal market in Nizwa in about one week and later we will go up into the mountain with Arabia's biggest canyon, a cute mountain village and some otherworldly mountain scenes. I am glad you enjoyed this exposure to the Middle East.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ken. I guess that camel picture shows either: how flexible camels can be, or how useful a Toyota pickup truck is the world over ... your choice, or maybe you can come up with something even more intriguing?

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Marion for looking in on our tour and your kind comment. I have to admit, I am much more familiar with sheep than with goats - and sheep have the very annoying habit, to photographers at least, of walking off and presenting your rear end whenever you come close to them to take a photo. Goats on the other side can be very alert and attentive and are actually wonderful photographic subjects. I was totally surprised here in Oman to see how many kinds of radically different looking goats exist. We will be seeing lots more of goats, particularly at the Nizwa lifestock market in about one week, and then again up on the Al Hajar mountains later on the tour. Glad you enjoyed these pictures and I am sure you will enjoy the Middle East when you make it over there! Joe

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Yes, amazing Mike, isn't it - there actually is a life beyond water and beyond sand - so much still to learn in this life! Thanks for looking and your fun comments! And as to goats: you may as well get adjusted, there will be plenty more coming over the coming weeks!

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

I will certainly do that; sorry I missed your previous postings.... Bob

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

No problem, I trust you will find some other interesting shots there, we started out at the coast and then worked our way inland. Have fun and hopefully enjoy. Joe

BTW - best to start with #1 where I do an intro and show maps.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Still enjoying the tour. Is the camel in the truck real or maybe a stuffed animal?

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Barbara, I am happy you still enjoy this tour. The camel is definitely real, in my "Full" album I actually show 3 pictures of this truck with the camel, and the camel changes its position, well, at least it moves its head.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Very nice. And it's good to see that even the camels wear masks in public. Doing their part against the corona virus.