He's the first accredited frankincense sommelier in Oman, and the investment in training the hotel (and Khalid, as a student) undertook was significant: He trained for two years, under the ...

Kate Eshelby takes her family to the Dhofar region of Oman where frankincense has been harvested for millennia. On their travels, they visit the world's largest sand desert.

Frankincense is grown in the Dhofar region of southern Oman, on the eastern border of Yemen. As part of Khalid’s training to be the hotel’s Culture and Heritage Ambassador, he spent time in ...

In Oman, Frankincense Still Tops Gift Lists The resin’s sweet and musky scent has been added to items like sunscreen and ice cream. Share full article ...

Susan Hack finds a portable, romantic air freshener to take on the road: travel candles by Amouage, the luxury Oman-based perfume house founded at the behest of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said.

To find out more about the Arabian leopards in Oman, Al Hikmani and his colleagues installed more than 100 camera traps between 2011 and 2015 around the Dhofar mountains, and collected more than ...

You've probably heard that Frankincense was one of the three gifts brought to the baby Jesus by the three wise men, according to The Gospel of Matthew. But what the heck is it?

The smell of frankincense – a hard-to-pin-down, piquant-woody aroma – wafts around the maze-like lanes of the centuries-old Muttrah Souk in Muscat. In every other store, terracotta pots are ...

A short, 30-minute drive south, out of Oman ’s capital city, is the stately Shangri-La Al Husn resort. The rambling coastal property, sat on dramatic cliffs overlooking the azure waters of the Gulf of ...