Mountain routes out of Sohar

From just past the Hatta borderpost, it's 1281km to Salalah in the far south of Oman	Dusk at Sohar Fort	Sallan Roundabout, north coast of Oman near Sohar	Globe Roundabout - Sohar - turn right (when headed towards Muscat) for Oman Highway 8
Globe Roundabout, Sohar	SharjahOmanMay09 397.jpg	Sounds like my kind of town - Beer Jam, Oman	Beer Jam - بير جم
Oman Route 8 from Sohar to Yanqul (and on to Ibri)	Mountains along Oman Route 8 southwest of Sohar	A wadi with water along Oman Route 8	Oman Route 8 southwest of Sohar
Oman Route 8 - more interesting than the coastal highway	Pinnacle along Oman Route 8 near Al Wuqbah	Camel and pinnacle	Pinnacle along Oman Route 8 near Al Wuqbah
Arriving in Yanqul as dusk falls	Yanqul	Yanqul	Sultan Qaboos Mosque at night, Yanqul
Oman Highway 13 leading west from Rustaq	East side of Jabal Shams from Route 13 outside Rustaq	Small watchtower, Oman Route 13 west of Rustaq	To avoid the coast road, we left Rustaq heading west on Route 13 looking for Route 9
Again, this section between Rustaq and Ibri on Route 13 is poorly covered in Off-road Oman Explorer	Oman Route 13 from Rustaq to Ibri	We're looking to get on Off-road Oman Explorers "The Chains" route from the Rustaq-Ibri Road	The correct turnoff for The Chains route is at N23 29.862/E056 50.853
Soon, Oman Route 9 will be a nice paved road all the way from the Ibri-Rustaq Road to the Coastal Road just south of Sohar	...but for now, some of the route is still a rough wadi track	Newly paved section of Oman Route 9	The new road (Hwy 9) is built above the old route in the wadi
The old Off-road track in the wadi and the new Oman Highway 9	The old road, Wadi Hawasinah, Oman	Oman Route 9 newly paved	Oman Route 9 newly paved
Mountains along Oman Route 9	Oman Highway 9	Mijzi, Oman	Mijzi, Oman
Terraced fields awaiting planting, Mijzi	Mijzi (N23 37.616/E056 57.125)	Mijzi, Oman, a small village off Highway 9	Date palms, Mijzi
مجزي عمان	Oman Highway 9	Oman Highway 9	SharjahOmanMay09 1980.jpg
Ruins of a large house, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruins of a large house, Wadi Hawasinah	Village along Highway 9, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruins with a tower, Wadi Hawasinah
Partially ruined village, Wadi Hawasinah	Partially ruined village, Wadi Hawasinah	Partially ruined village, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruins, Wadi Hawasinah
Village ruins, Wadi Hawasinah	Driving along Wadi Hawasinah (near the hospital)	Ruins of a fort above Wadi Hawasinah (near the hospital)	Ruins of a fort above Wadi Hawasinah (near the hospital)
Ruins of a fort (N23 41.531/E56 55.086)	Ruined fort, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruined fort, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruined fort, Wadi Hawasinah
Ruined fort, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruined fort, Wadi Hawasinah	More ruins, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruins of a village (N23 42.217/E056 54.487)
Village ruins, Wadi Hawasinah	Village ruins, Wadi Hawasinah	Ruins, Wadi Hawasinah, Oman Highway 9	Oman Highway 9
Looking back at the previous set of ruins	Oman Highway 9 reaches the coastal highway 58km south of Sohar's Globe Roundabout	Oman coastal highway at sunset near Sohar	Oman coastal highway at sunset near Sohar
Sohar Globe Roundabout