Beautiful world, felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shalalala shalalalala shalalalapla shalalalalalasla its morning in the arabian desert. The place explorer ber tram thomas called the abode of death. But its a beautiful place, the kind of place i look for more and more these days. Stark, empty, clean sand that stretches out seemingly forever. Oman defies expectations. It shouldnt, according to the cruel logic of the world, exist, but it does and its incredible. The sultanate of oman is a monarchy, a choke point in the worlds oil supply. It is surrounded by some of the trickest and contentious powers in the region. And yet here it is, relatively small, tolerant, welcoming to outsiders, peaceful, and stunningly beautiful. But oman is facing uncertainty with succession issues and declining oil reserves. The quell of whats next is a big, if often, unspoken one. So pre1970, this was a very different, very different