Layout of Muscat City

The bird's view of Muscat from the aircraft just before landing  was enchanting.One side hills and the other side sea-in between the well laid out city.There were no plants on the hills-somewhat unusual sight to me who is used to seeing hills generally with greenery  in India .The hills also appeared as if laid out planned.Also something like carvings appeared on the hills when seen from above.

Here left hand driving is the norm.So people like us who are used to right hand driving have to be extra careful while crossing the road.In the long stretches of highways,trees are seen on either side-mainly neem trees.It is clear that they are planted.The efforts in terms of finance and labour in this are commendable.No stray animals are seen anywhere-absolutely none.Locals say that cats normally move around the waste storage bins.Anyway we saw none so far.

In the Shiva temple here ,the prasad to devotees is distributed in a buffet style.Those who offer eatables such as vada,curd rice or pongal to the deity,leave these items on a table just outside the shrine.The devotees help themselves.Thus devotees sitting outside the shrine in the benches after darshan  are blessed with sumptuous and varity of eatables, with the cutlery also taken care of.