Sohar city

Sohar in Oman has been transformed into a great

location thanks to the focus on tourism related

activities and it is being built up as an important

tourist destination in the recent years.

The town of Sohar is very green and is filled with

fruit and dairy farms thus it forms a great

contrast from the surrounding deserts. The city

of Sohar is easily accessible and is only a couple

of hours from the cosmopolitan city of Dubai.

The place has every thing from sea to desert and can

be easily reached from the capital of Muscat, Oman.

Sohar has also developed into an important business

center with companies coming in droves to set up

shops in this city. The number of expatriates has gone up and the city seems to be on a high as far as business is concerned.
The city of Sohar was always very important in terms

of trade and commerce and it was famous for

its copper deposits extraction of which had started

some five thousand years or so ago.
Even today also there are some three copper mines that

are functional and they contain nearly twenty million

tones of copper deposits.

The Sohar castle is a top attraction of the city and is a must see for people visiting the city of Sohar and the public gardens and parks also augment the tourist importance of the city.

So Sohar can easily be called one of the most popular destinations of Oman .