{"id":146,"date":"2015-04-10T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:35:24","slug":"the-mutrah-souk-in-muscat-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"The Mutrah Souk in Muscat, Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The Mutrah souk in Muscat is one of the mandatory places to go for visitors. It is a very traditional place, with various shops lining the narrow alleyways. It is actually quite small, but still one can feel \u201clost\u201d inside, due to the narrowness of the streets, and the ambience inside: traditional fares like incense and spices are available, as well as all other types of products. Be sure to visit one of the juice stands for a really good natural fruit juice, or the more traditional teas and samosas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Less known to visitors are the streets located just a stone throw\u2019s away from the more commercial streets; in here it is possible to find busy men unloading merchandise for their shops, and traditionally decorated wood and steel doors. Away from the hustle and bustle of the commercial activity, I was able to concentrate on capturing some of the \u201cflavour\u201d of the souk, the details that often go unnoticed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In this regard, the Sony A7II and Zeiss C Sonnar f1.5 50mm lens are a wonderful combination, for this more contemplative type of photography. Having visited this place so many times before, this time I wanted to obtain some different results, other than the more \u201cnormal\u201d shots inside the souk proper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_46_net.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_46_net.jpg\" alt=\"muscat_29_3_15_46_net\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_46_net.jpg 667w, https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_46_net-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_3_net.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_3_net.jpg\" alt=\"muscat_29_3_15_3_net\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_3_net.jpg 667w, https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_3_net-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_6_net.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_6_net.jpg\" alt=\"muscat_29_3_15_6_net\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_6_net.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/muscat_29_3_15_6_net-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 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to go for visitors. It is a very traditional place, with various shops lining the narrow alleyways. It is actually quite small, but still one can feel \u201clost\u201d inside, due to the narrowness of the streets, and the ambience inside: traditional fares like incense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mutrah Souk in Muscat, Oman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulobizarro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}