Al-Sulaif Fort | قلعة السليف — Attraction in Ad Dhahirah Governorate

Historical castle

Qalq al-Saleef is one of the Omani castles located in the state of Ibri, the province of the phenomenon. It was built by Imam Sultan bin Saif al-Yaraibi. Consisting of several buildings and houses surrounded by a wall with several high towers and passes down the castle of Falaj as well as a mosque and a well of water. It stands tall above the town of Silv at the foot of a mountain.

It is a fortress and its residence is mostly for the villages of Al-Azur and Al-Manatharah, which are based in the village of Al-Saleef. And most of the houses of the fort for the sons of the tribes of Al-Azzur and Manathara and the most famous owners of the houses of the ancient houses of the late, Salem bin Saeed Al-Azri, Sheikhan bin Salim Al-Azri and Hilal bin Mohammed Al-Azri and Badr bin Salem Al-Manzari and Ali bin Salim Al-Mundhiri and Hamad bin Ali Al-Mundhari "

The location as a whole of the lane with its houses, towers, mosques, pits, wells, market and fortified fortress is an integrated defensive fortification of the masquerade as "Alsliv" was chosen at the foot of a rocky hill overlooking the valley of the eye shows a sense of military defense and high...

The local guide is VERY energetic and assertive about taking your camera and photographing you in. every. place. available. He then reviews the photos with you before moving on.

My wife said he was getting a little too close to her but we've lived in the region for a while and she's used to men treating her more like a local, not a tourist so maybe that wont bother others. (See how differently he poses - both in his stance and his smile - with me from how he poses with my wife. Thankfully this was the only him he touched her!)

The price is 5 OMR per person and well worth the memorial photography if that's what you want but it was not what we had in mind when breaking up our cross-Oman roadtrip for a little castle...

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