Salalah Trekkers identify 60 new locations

Where there is will there is a way.

This has been aptly proved by an informal group of trekkers in Salalah.

It is their will only that takes them to difficult treks every weekend and brings them back rejuvenated for another trekking next weekend.

So far they have identified about 60 old and new trekking locations in and around Salalah.

The beauty of their activity lies in consistency and professional approach they adopt during trekking, as they do not just visit a location and come back.

They document the whole journey and compile them for future reference.

Not only have they identified these locations, but have visited most of them and there are a few left where most of the group members have not yet visited together.

Thus Salalah Trekkers is a name to reckon with among like minded people.

It is a multi-cultural group of people from many countries who love to explore the beauty of Salalah on foot and “not just from the windshields of their cars.”

“There are 20 families attached to the group, as we keep on receiving interest from people to join. So sometimes there are 30-40 people visiting one of the sites on a particular weekend,” said the group members Pedro Rivera and Sambandam.

They, however, insisted that the Salalah Trekkers is an open group and there is no hierarchy involved in it. “People take joint initiatives here. This is very healthy entertainment and achieving something in a group feels like fulfilling and rejuvenating.”

The group, according to Pedro and Sambandam, was an initiative of an avid explorer Subramanyam who left Oman last year due to some personal reasons but still keeps track on the activities of the group.