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Private tour - Empty Quarter desert adventure - Wadi Dawka + Ubar

By Takamul Travel and Rent a Car
Free cancellation available
Price is P 21,517 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Get the most affordable, enjoyable and adventurous private tour to the Empty Quarter desert on the market. Explore the vastness of the desert areas with different shapes of dunes. Experience the adrenalin ride on the dunes with our expert drivers who will get the best performance out of the terrain cars. Then you will climb the dunes yourself dipping your feet in the moving sands. Enjoy the breathtaking views on the sea of sand from the dunes´ peaks while the sun slowly moves to the horizon. Before the sunset, you can take the best pictures of the desert landscape with the sun setting over the dunes. On the way to the desert, you will visit a camp with black camels, UNESCO site Wadi Dawka, a valley where thousands of frankincense trees grow and give the valued harvest of frankincense drops. From there you will continue on the Frankincense route to the lost city of Ubar (UNESCO) whose ruins stand witness to the glorious past when the city served as a center for the incense trade.

Activity location
  • Wadi Dawkah
    • قيرون حيرتي, محافظة ظفار, Oman
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • Wadi Dawkah
    • قيرون حيرتي, محافظة ظفار, Oman

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Private tour - Empty Quarter desert adventure - Wadi Dawka + Ubar
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
P 21,516.75 x 1 AdultP 21,516.75

Total
Price is P 21,516.75

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Soda/Pop
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottled water
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Coffee and/or Tea

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Wadi Dawkah
  • 30m
Explore the UNESCO World Heritage site of Wadi Dawka where you can find thousands of Frankincense trees in the rocky desert area on the Nejd plateau in Dhofar mountains. Smell the scent of the precious resin pouring out of the trees.
Ubar
  • 20m
Discover Ubar - the lost city in the desert, also known as the Atlantis of the desert. In the ancient and medieval times, it served as an oasis on the frankincense trade route. Sadly, the city collapsed to the sinkhole which appeared in the limestone bedrock under the city.
Empty Quarter
  • 3h
Drive to the Empty Quarter, the largest sandy desert in the world. There you will enjoy the adrenalin ride on the dunes with our experienced drivers. Driving up the dunes, descending from steep slopes and making the tilted horizontal drive. You can also try to run to the top of the dunes and relish in walking barefoot in the sand. From the top of the dunes, you can observe how the landscape changes its color during the sunset and make some remarkable pictures.

Location

Activity location
  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    Wadi Dawkah
    • قيرون حيرتي, محافظة ظفار, Oman
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Wadi Dawkah
    • قيرون حيرتي, محافظة ظفار, Oman

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