Arriving from Muscat with a driver booked in Muscat, I made a short stop in the town of Sur to admire the old Dhowns shipyard. Ras al Had is a small town notable for its old fortress, a small WWII airfield, some archaeological sites and obviously the turtle nesting beaches. The turtle reserve in Ras al Hadd, Oman, is known to be a nesting site for green and hawksbill turtles.

It was a great experience to be able to visit the nesting turtles during the night, always with the established means of respect towards these animals, (avoid speaking loudly, making sudden movements and direct lighting), the next day I was able to snorkel among dozens of turtles, flying fish and tunas, at night you can also see luminescent plankton on the water's edges.

But I want to highlight a negative point... I was disappointed with the ecological maintenance of the place, it is a site with great potential to be a natural WHS of Oman, but the beaches were full of plastics and garbage from both locals and irresponsible tourists, and Many locals were driving their 4x4 vehicles along the beaches at high speed, the Oman authorities should be stricter, clean the beaches and better preserve the place to be able to enter their registration.