Travel Guide Sifah

The coastal plain of Sifah will never be what it used to be, this landmark for family weekend excursions, this long ribbon of red sand with the massif in the background. For several years now, a large part of the site has been propelled into the century of leisure with the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars of a marina + hotels + golf course + restaurants + bars + apartments and villas. For a few years to come, we will have to make do with a gigantic construction site which will not have to thwart, if one prefers the "countryside" to the city, a desire to stay at the Sifawy Boutique Hotel, well away from the main work, or even a beautiful day of leisure not so far from Muscat, but completely out of the ordinary - water and land sports, 9-hole golf, new infrastructures, a cool and uninhibited seaside atmosphere. Against the current of the rest of the city, this new and modern enclave that many expatriates have appropriated for their weekends, and which is in the South what the Al Mouj district is in the North, allows you to live "European style". Indeed, it gathers an eclectic and trendy population of locals who have lived abroad, tourists and yachtsmen with high purchasing power since the marina provides no less than 200 moorings, including about thirty for very large yachts. The Bank's beach club and its Mediterranean, liberal and festive atmosphere is the most vivid representation of this new way of life which still concerns only a very small handful of Omanis.