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[[User:Alex|alex]]: I found it easy to hitchhike in Oman, however, hitchhiking as such is not known and many people want to drop you of at the bus station or give you money that you can use the bus. When they grasped the idea, some wanted to make an additional way of 300 km just to bring me closer to my destination. Many people also just stopped for me out of curiosity. I had sometimes a hard time to find out where they go to and often ended up to have lift just for a couple of kilometres (being dropped at a bad spot). Further, I never used public transport in the cities as I found it easy to hitchhike there as well. Many people speak English. There are petrol stations along the motorways. No payment was expected for lifts. Great hospitality.
==Common visa facility with [[UAE]] ==
[[Oman]] has a common visa facility with [[UAE]], if you obtained your [[UAE]] visa in [[Dubai]] airport and it is still valid for at least 3 weeks; then you can get a 3-weeks free visa for [[Oman]]. It's only the countries mentioned on this site that are benefiting from this: [http://www.rop.gov.om/english/dg_passport_visa_dubai.asp]. What that website does not mention though, is that this is ONLY possible if you go through the [[Hatta]] border (I hitched from [[Dubai]] down to [[Al Ain]] border, only to get the information that I had to go through [[Hatta]]). You still need the exit-stamp from [[UAE]] even though you want the 3-weeks free visa.
The price of the "normal" visa has increased and there are many websites that provides the old (cheaper) price. Check this website for the correct prices: [http://www.rop.gov.om/english/dg_passport_visas.asp]
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