Wahiba Wilderness Tour: Explore Desert Dunes and Wadis

Embark on a thrilling adventure in the Wahiba Sands with our private full-day tour. Explore the desert dunes, visit traditional nomad homes, and relax by the crystal-clear waters of Wadi Bani Khalid.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Muscat - Convenient pick-up services are available from all hotels in Muscat, including renowned resorts like Shangri-La, Jumeirah, and Al Bustan Palace. Simply provide your location, and a seamless start to your tour will be ensured.
  • Wahiba Sands - Wahiba Sands is a desert area that forms part of the Al Sharqiya Sands in Oman. This location…
What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Have you contemplated an expedition across a vast, sandy desert and experiencing intense heat firsthand? If so, the Wahiba Wilderness Tour is tailor-made for you!
Navigate the sandy plains in a 4WD vehicle, feeling the thrill of traveling over rough terrain in this robust off-road transporter. Visit the Wahiba Sands to observe the classical dwellings of…

Location
Muscat
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sneha_p
Mar 22, 2025
Must See tour in Oman - Great experience. Our Guide for the day - Sultan was ultra helpful. He ensured that we have a comfortable journey. Highly recommended while visiting Oman.
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Piotr_p
Mar 7, 2025
Excellent, with Sultan the tour guide - I had a fantastic experience on this tour with our guide Sultan (+96895598248). I joined as a solo traveler and was part of a lively group of four travelers from Bulgaria and Spain, which made the day even more fun. Sultan was very communicative before the tour, making everything smooth and easy, and throughout the day, he shared lots of interesting insights about Omani culture, traditions, and daily life. I really appreciated how open he was to conversations and questions, and his flexibility meant I could spend extra time at the spots I enjoyed most. Overall, it was a wonderful tour — I’d definitely book with Sultan again and highly recommend this to anyone visiting Oman!
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Yuced2022
Feb 28, 2025
Thumbs up - Thanks to Abdullah, our experienced and helpful guide and driver, this trip went extremely well. Wish it could have been longer
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168briam
Feb 27, 2025
Desert and Wadi - We had a spectacular day in this tour. From the start of the day, our guide Aziz was on time picking us up and the car was clean and comfortable setting us up for a nice trip. Aziz was very knowledgeable of each area we visited and told us many useful facts and tips. The desert was beautiful but the highlight was the Wadi! It was truly a day to be remembered and we can’t wait to visit Oman again for a longer timeframe to see all the beauty the country had to offer! And we will definitely be looking for Aziz to show us around once more!
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Rona
Feb 19, 2025
Great trip. - It was excellent, we both enjoyed it very much. Ahmed was a great guide and was very attentive and knowledgeable. The desert driving was incredible. Wadi was beautiful and peaceful.
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538iqram
Feb 12, 2025
Wonderful Day - We had an lovely trip to the Wadi and the Dessert. Our guide Khalid made sure we all had fun and that we were feeling well and comfortable troughout. It's was an amazing expirience.
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Maimb9845at
Jan 26, 2025
A memorable experience - GidOman, thank you very much for this wonderful day! The wadi and desert were like part of another world and special thanks to our guide Khalid who have made this excursion easy, joy and full of laugh!
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729immad
Mar 22, 2025
A mere day - I went on the desert and Wadi Shabi excursion last Wednesday with Abdullah and I highly recommend him. He is a very friendly person as well as a serious driver🥂🌎✌️
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Rositagoa
Mar 3, 2025
Amazing! - The trip was amazing. Our driver and guide Ahmed was very knowledgeable. Would definitely recommend Wahiba Sands and Wadi Bani Khalid to anyone considering this trip.
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Christina_g
Mar 12, 2025
Go with someone else - Of all the daytrips I have ever booked on Viator, this was one of the most disappointing. The so-called „desert tour“ gives you a stop at a Bedouin house, right at the entrance to the desert. You can ride a camel for 3 OMR, which is a 100m track and back. I‘m all for Bedouins benefitting from tourists but this should have been a 10min stop and then on to the actual desert. Instead, we drove up one tiny dune and stopped. The guide didn’t even bother to get out of the car and told us to take 5min for pictures. I could not believe it. The description had alluded to activities such as sandboarding being offered. This was not the case. I decided to at least walk up one dune - from which I could still see the city just a few hundred meters away. In the end, I slid down the dune without a board, but the guide turned around the car, signaling his impatience. We had spent 2.5h in the car to get there, and one photo was all we got. Not even 10min of driving across the dunes. Crazy. We drove on another hour to the Wadi, which is gorgeous. Unfortunately, we had only 90min to walk in, eat lunch, swim and walk out. The guide told us to stick together and my fellow travelers unfortunately took so long to eat that I spent less than 15min actually in the water. It would have been much better to have a snack in the car and spend at least 2h at the actual Wadi. I couldn’t believe, I’d spent around 6h in a car and almost 150€ for what boiled down to 2 photo stops. I‘d recommend to either rent a car yourself or go with a company that actually offers activities in the dunes and spends the sunset there, etc. Really sad ending to my trip to an incredible country.
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).