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Top 5 things to do in Muscat
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1A Magical Evening in Muscat: City Tour
2.5 hours • city highlight toursBook nowFrom €52.45 per person - Choose your local
2Full Coverage Muscat City Tour
5 hours • city highlight toursBook nowFrom €68.14 per person - Choose your local
3Discover the Majesty: Jabel Shams Canyon Day Trip
8 hours • day tripsBook nowFrom €120 per person - Choose your local
5City Escape: Wahiba Sands & Wadi Bani Khalid Day Trip
8 hours • day tripsBook nowFrom €120 per person
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Things to do in Muscat
Our locals will give you the best experiences that Muscat has to offer
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A Magical Evening in Muscat: City Tour
4.9 28 reviews2.5 hours • city highlight toursfrom €52.45 per person - Choose your local
Full Coverage Muscat City Tour
4.9 28 reviews5 hours • city highlight toursfrom €68.14 per person - Choose your local
Discover the Majesty: Jabel Shams Canyon Day Trip
4.9 28 reviews8 hours • day tripsfrom €120 per person - Choose your local
City Escape: Wadi Shab Day Trip
4.9 28 reviews8 hours • day tripsfrom €120 per person - Choose your local
City Escape: Wahiba Sands & Wadi Bani Khalid Day Trip
4.9 28 reviews8 hours • day tripsfrom €120 per person - Choose your local
City Escape: Jebel Akhdar Day Trip
4.9 28 reviews8 hours • day tripsfrom €120 per person - With Hajer
A Day In Nizwa, The Historical Paradise Of Oman!
5.0 21 reviews8 hours • day tripsfrom €107 per person - With Hajer
Private Yacht Golden Hour Tour
5.0 21 reviews2 hours • city highlight toursfrom €110 per person
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- 5.0
Great experience!
"We had a great day in the mountains with Yousuf - beautiful landscape and scenery. Yousuf shared a lot of information about local life and showed us hidden places. We can highly recommend a tour with him - thanks Yousuf 🙏 Regards, Paul and Inga "
- 5.0
Muscat City tour with Hajer
"Thank you very much Hajer, we had a wonderful time with you and truly enjoyed your company! We were two adults with two children 7 and 9 and Hajer made it fun and vey interesting for the whole family. She showed us beautiful spots and introduced us to delicious local dishes. We felt very safe with her as a driver and guide and can highly recommend her tour for families with kids of any age. Of course our two boys loved being driven around in a Maserati, listening to some trendy music as well. An overall amazing experience wich we can highly recommend to anyone. Thanks 🙏🏼 "
- 5.0
Excellent private Muscat Tour!
"We booked a private half day tour in muscat. She picked us up in our hotel and we loved the big, clean and beautiful car! Hajer is extremely friendly, she knows the city very well, her english is brilliant, she's a very safe driver and a great photographer too ;) We felt very comfortable and she even bought a delicious coffee and typical local snacks for us and this during Ramadan! We really appreciated this generous gift to us and we would always book her again. We had a great tour and we can highly recommend her!"
- 5.0
A must-book Muscat tour guide!
"I booked the Full coverage Muscat city tour with Hajer as my guide. I felt like I was chatting to a new friend showing me her home city while telling me the cultural history of Muscat's buildings, structures and landscapes. Among the must see sights Hajer took me to, I got to see things that aren't featured in travel guides or YouTube videos. Hajer was also able to tailor the experience to my personal preferences which was fantastic. This tour was the perfect way to orientate myself to this wonderful city and I was able to make the most out of my remaining time here. I highly recommend engaging Hajer for your Muscat experience - you won't be disappointed. "
- 5.0
A perfect start to our Omani Holidays :-)
"The perfect start with our personal guide Hajer already began before our departure to Oman: We (a couple from Switzerland, age around 35 years) spontaneously (approx. 10 days before) decided to go on a tour of Oman (8 days, only northern part). A lot of the tour was already planned but according to the short preparation time, we still had many unanswered questions and unplanned details in our tour. This was so much welcome and appreciated 😊 Hajer not only answered all of our questions patiently via “With Locals Chat” and gave us tips, but also spoke to me on the phone. This previous experience already felt like visiting a friend when we arrived. She also gave us the crucial tip to decide our hotel in Muscat, which we didn't regret 😀 Since we had a long overnight flight with a stop in Istanbul and only arrived in Muscat at 3am, we wanted to get some sleep before going on the city tour with Hajer on the first day. This was absolutely no problem for Hajer. She was completely flexible right up to the last minute, so that we were able to get some sleep and have breakfast at the hotel before she picked us up. Another pleasant surprise was the car she picked us up and drove us around. I don't want to say any more about the car, you'll see for yourself. At least for my husband this was also part of the experience😉 The tour itself was very exciting and varied: Over all, there was a lot of driving through the city. But this is due to the city itself, because it is huge and the relatively few sights are scattered far and wide. As Hajer is a very experienced driver we felt always secure in the city traffic and it gave us a good foresight to our own driving experience with the rental car. With Hajer we could see the most important sights of the City within really less of time (5h), as she knows the routes and places. We would have been lost, if we needed to do it on ourselves by car, by foot it is nearly impossible. Beside the main sights like Sultans Palace, Mosque (depends on time/only morning), Opera House, Matrah and Matrah Souk, Hajer showed us some local places and didn’t forget our bellies. So we made some stops in between at a Halwa Sweets store (kind of preferred Omani sweets), where you could try a spoon of every pastry for free and also have some Omani coffee. We also stopped at a typical «Omani drive in» to have some Karak (black tea, milk and saffron – absolutely delicious) and some kind of Samosa and some typical bread with cream cheese and honey. What Hajer introduced us as well, is the Omani culture, of driving by, stay in the car and let you deliver all the things to your car window, even if its not looking like a drive-in 😊 That knowledge saved us a lot of embarrassing moments on the route and also so time. After all these things, Hajer brought us up to the Mutrah Fort, where we could perfectly see the sun going down over the city and the Marina. Just magic 😊 Last but not least we went to the Souk. From my before «Souk-Experiences» the walk through was a little bit too fast, but for my husband it was perfect, as he does not really like shopping. So, if you like Souks and all the Shopping and bargaining the tour is a first and good overview, but you need to come again by your own or need to advise Hajer, that you need more time. Then, she will be a perfect shopping-advisor, as he knows the prices and is not afraid to argue with the vendors. After a very impressive tour of Muscat, I asked Hajer about our plan to make a Ad-Dimaniyat-Island tour the next day - we didn’t book it in advance, as we wanted her recommendations. Right away she called a friend, which told us that no tours will be happen the next three days according to the wind. So we needed to skip our plan and change the route. Together with Hajer we decided to go to Wadi Shab the next day what was planned for our return day to Muscat on the last day of the tour. But our renting car wasn’t ready, because we booked it just for tomorrow. Hajer managed to get us the same renting car from the same firm we prebooked for one day earlier for the same daily-prices. Then there was the next problem: I had some trekking shoes for the Wadis but no water shoes. I wanted to buy them in Switzerland in advance, but as there was no Season, I couldn’t do it at the store in this short pre-booking time. And we also didn’t have the time to go shopping for these on the first day in Muscat. So well, Hajer showed once again her heart and the truly amazing kind of Omani hospitality: She offered me her own water shoes, to take them with me to have the Wadi experiences, and to leave them back at the hotel reception, where she will get them back after. If this is isn’t true commitment to hospitality… I don’t know, what else could be…. 😍 Over all: You will see that Hajer is practiced to do this kind of tours and feels like a professional. But you can always customize your tour by telling your wishes to Hajer or ask some questions. You will never have the feeling (like in other countries) that it’s kind of a selling (instead it is the total difference, as Hajer pays what she offers). And, it is not her main job: She did a lot of previous works as a Consultant for Sports (FIFA, WM Bahrain, etc.) and she still has this main job. So you can really feel that she does this sightseeing tours by heart. So, long story short: We can only recommend Hajer for your City-Sightseeing in Muscat for the fullest. It will be perfect. 💕 Lots of Love. Larissa & Olav"
- 5.0
Hajer is AMAZING
"We started out in the morning when Hajer picked us up from our hotel. From there we started hitting the sites one by one with Hajer providing local insights and stopping here and there for local treats (karak chai with saffron!). Her knowledge and company made the trip even more interesting than had we just gone on our own. This was a great way to see the city sites and to make a friend for life. Thank you Hajer!!!!"
- 5.0
What a cool guide!
"I really enjoyed my day with Hajer. She was super flexible, thoughtful and made me feel like cruising around Muscat with an old friend. As a female solo-traveller I especially enjoyed experiencing Muscat with a woman. Hajer is a true local, knowing everything and everyone in this city. Highly recommended! "
- 5.0
Felt Like a Local!
"We had a fanatstic afternoon with Hajer. She made us feel like we were old friends just arrived in town. She showed us her favorite places and answered all of our questions about life in Muscat. We took a scenic boat ride from a small beach through a stone arch and looking up at hidden beaches. She also shared some of her favorite cliff-side views of the shoreline. We grabbed coffee and snacks and went to see sunset on a nearby village beach with kids playing nearby. There's too much to share it all! It was a magical day and we'll remember it as a highlight of our visit to Oman. "
- 5.0
Magical day with Yousuf
"We had such an incredible day with Yousuf. He was so knowledgable and great fun. On top of all that, he managed to save a boy from drowning at the Wadi! He’s a bit of a super hero! After the wadi trip we went out into the desert. This was such a special trip. He drove us over the dunes which was such fun and a big adrenaline rush, then set up camp on top of one of the dunes so that we could watch the sunset which was just magical. He went over and above to make our day special and I can’t recommend him highly enough Thanks Yousuf "
- 5.0
Highlights of Muscat
"My friend and I loved having Hajer as our guide. As two females with little knowledge about Oman, it was a small comfort to have another female guide in a country we visited for the first time! She was able to customize our tour slightly to tailor to our interests. Oman is also a very driving friendly city for tourists, but it was nice having a local who knew all the best routes. She also was able to bargain for us at the souk when buying spices. Highly recommend you book with Hajer! We'll be visiting Oman again."
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