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Environment-friendly Oman.(Greenwatch)
Loading up with ice at Sur, a port on the Gulf of Oman, before embarking on a fishing expedition.
The Omanis like to claim that after Singapore theirs is the cleanest country in the world. It is certainly spotless. At the airport, the grey marble floor shines like a mirror. Not a scrap of waste paper or speck of dust can be seen. Parked outside are gleaming cars. A determined effort to keep Oman clean is backed up by radio and TV messages and enforced by hefty fines ($100 or thereabouts for a dirty car or a cigarette butt thrown from a window), while an army of sweepers in orange uniforms work night and day on the roads, picking up any rubbish that might, in spite of ...
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