{"id":51579,"date":"2026-11-14T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/the-adventure-filled-middle-east-country-you-should-visit-in-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:34:45","slug":"the-adventure-filled-middle-east-country-you-should-visit-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/the-adventure-filled-middle-east-country-you-should-visit-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"The adventure-filled Middle East country you should visit in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/north-africa-middle-east\/oman\">Oman<\/a>\u2019s spectacular Jebel Akhdar, mountain guide Hassan AlDaghari loves showing visitors an unexpected side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/middle-east\">Middle East<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The climate here is a cool 27 degrees in summer, and the place \u2013 which literally translates to \u201cgreen mountain\u201d \u2013 is famed for unparalleled access to rock climbing and hiking, as well as its rose harvests and an abundant pomegranate season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor people who like adventure, this is the right place,\u201d the Omani local tells me, as the 4&#215;4 rumbles along a mountainous road framed by juniper and olive trees, along with wild donkeys. \u201cYou can engage with the locals here easily, and can really feel the experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Guide Hassan in the Jebel Ackhdar mountains (Tamara Davison)<\/p>\n<p>The past year has been a hard one for the tourism sector here \u2013 as shown by the notable absence of tourists in the Jebel Akhdar mountains. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the situation here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oman\">Oman<\/a> is good, tourists are still worried about flying,\u201d Hassan adds, nodding to recent regional tensions that no one here asked for. \u201cWe hope [for more tourists], but you can tell from reservations \u2026 it\u2019s still quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/north-africa-middle-east\/tunisia\/winter-sun-tunisia-luke-skywalker-b3066577.html\">The winter sun Spain alternative with Luke Skywalker\u2019s childhood home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oman\u2019s growing tourism industry is eager to change that and draw more visitors to a destination that remains surprisingly under the radar.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/north-africa-middle-east\/oman\/oman-guide-mountains-desert-beach-b3083647.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving across Oman\u2019s spectacular Jebel Akhdar, mountain guide Hassan AlDaghari loves showing visitors an unexpected side of the Middle East. The climate here is a cool 27 degrees in summer, and the place \u2013 which literally translates to \u201cgreen mountain\u201d \u2013 is famed for unparalleled access to rock climbing and hiking, as well as its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,6265,7219,42],"class_list":["post-51579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-mixtv","tag-north-africa-amp-middle-east","tag-oman","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}