[oman-l] tourist info

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Gruetze Christoph,

You can forget about traveling to Yemen by road. You won't get the
permission. So the sea route remains to try. Hopefully someone on the list
lives in Salalah and can find out about the ship. I have forwarded your mail
to some of my friends in Oman, maybe they can help.

Tommy Back
Walenstadt
Switzerland
Laaiq@bluewin.ch

-----Original Message-----
From: jambo@ping.at <jambo@ping.at>
To: oman-l@oman.org <oman-l@oman.org>
Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 7:34 PM
Subject: [oman-l] tourist info


>Hi,
>
>
> I am going to travel to Oman in February 1998 with some friends of
> mine and we are planning to extend our journey to the Republic of
> Yemen. We are a little concerned about how to cross the border from
> Oman to Yemen.
>A flight will be too expensive for us and we have heared that there is
>no official bus or taxi crossing the border on land. The embassy of
>Yemen in Austria told us that there are ships travelling from SALALAH
>to AL GHAYDAH and AL MUKALLA. If this information is true this would
>be the best way for us to go. But I also got some information that
>this ship route is not operating at the moment.
>
>Do you know if there are ships going from Salalah to Al Mukalla or
>somewhere else in Yemen regularly and if this is so at what time and
>how often are the ships runnig from Salalah. If a travelling by ship
>is not possible have you any idea about crossing the border on land?
>Is it possible to hitchhike or go on a truck?
>
>Do we need any special road permits to cross the border or is it ok
>with the visa for the republic of Yemen?
>
>
>thanks for your help
>
>we are all looking forward to visit your beautiful country
>
>
>
>
>Christoph Janda
>Margaretenstrasse 149/30
>1050 Wien
>++43-222-5446283
>email: jambo@ping.at