Interior decoration – abandoned village Ibri.

David A Lockwood colour. 04/02/201704/02/2017

Interior decoration of rooms in abandoned village of Ibri – a rather more important village on the camel route
between Muscat and Al Buraimi.
A lot of things were traded in Ibri – not all exactly above-board in the old days. In the 1800’s, conflicting descriptions were made by visitors: from it being called a place of vagabonds, scallywags & thieves to the exact opposite, a most friendly & hospitable place. Somewhere in between was probably nearer the truth.
Today it is a modern thriving town that makes visitors very welcome.

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Published 04/02/201704/02/2017

8 thoughts on “Interior decoration – abandoned village Ibri.”

Anonymous says:

05/02/2017 at 00:02

Beautiful! The colours I love and the patterns.

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1. David A Lockwood says:
  
  05/02/2017 at 12:14
  
  🙂
  A rustic charm that must have been very colourful.
  
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  1. Anonymous says:
    
    05/02/2017 at 17:08
    
    Just to say how thrilled I am that court order in USA created a window so I could squeeze through into comments. Hooray. Liz
    
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    1. David A Lockwood says:
      
      06/02/2017 at 06:11
      
      Good 🙂
Jenn says:

04/02/2017 at 23:03

How beautiful – to only have the privilege to stand there and hear the walls speak… 💕

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1. David A Lockwood says:
  
  05/02/2017 at 12:13
  
  Thanks – yes they speak volumes for those that look.
  
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montucky says:

04/02/2017 at 20:16

That must have been something to experience in its heyday! Fascinating! I love looking through your window into Oman!

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1. David A Lockwood says:
  
  05/02/2017 at 12:12
  
  These villages are all slowly disintegrating, with every major storm adding a little more destruction.
  Researching the history can be quite a challenge as the names change or the English literation of Arabic is sometimes quite imaginative ! Fortunately the early explorers gave very detailed location descriptions and reasonably accurate hand drawn maps.
  Pleased (in my own small way) that I have been able to open a window into a country that until the 1970’s was almost a blank on the map.
  
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