Thursday, September 16, 2010

23° 26′ 16″

No. Angelina Jolie has not given birth to a seventh child and had the equatorial coordinates of the birthplace tattooed onto her arm with the other half dozen inscriptions. That's the Tropic of Cancer and I spent my second Eid Al-Fitr in the Muslim world in and around Muscat, the only world capital intersected by this circle of latitude. Without launching into a tourism pitch, here are some snaps of my first brief visit which included staying at the Oman Dive Center in Bandar Al Jissah (a coastal cove with rock formations), two visits to Muttrah Souq, a drive to Nizwa and lunch on a boat along the jagged Muscat coastline:

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