Hiking with kids in Oman - Discover Oman

This post has been long overdue, but finally it is here! Wadi Hawer was our last big trip back in 2023, before we moved out of Oman. We really wanted to do it, I felt however, that best would be to have  guide, and it was not that easy to find one, but we finally managed. We once took visitors to Wadi Bani Khalid and drove over to see the start of Wadi Hawer and I found a note on a tree with a name and a phone number - this phone number helped us to find a guide :). Wadi Hawer is very close to Wadi Bani Khalid, next door so to say,  but for whatever reason it is far less popular than its famous neighbour. Wadi Bani Khalid is well developed with a cafe, they were building a hotel when we visited, have life guards on duty and it is full of visitors - a kind of tourist trap really. If you do not like touristy places, head to this all-natural beauty next door, a wadi without the crowed and with a lived-in authentic village next to it. You park next to the village at the wa...