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Sohar in Oman has been transformed into a great location thanks to the focus on tourism related activities and it is being built up as an important tourist destination in the recent years. The town of Sohar is very green and is filled with fruit and dairy farms thus it forms a great contrast from the surrounding deserts. The city of Sohar is easily accessible and is only a couple of hours from the cosmopolitan city of Dubai. The place has every thing from sea to desert and can be easily reached from the capital of Muscat, Oman. Sohar has also developed into an important business center with companies coming in droves to set up shops in this city. The number of expatriates has gone up and the city seems to be on a high as far as business is concerned. The city of Sohar was always very important in terms of trade and commerce and it was famous for its copper deposits extraction of which had started some five thousand years or so ago. Even today also there are some three copper mines that are functional and they contain nearly twenty million tones of copper deposits. The renewed interest in industrialization has meant that capitalism has also come in a big way to the city with rents having touched the ceiling. There are a number of places to eat and they serve all kinds of food including Indian and Arabic. The Souq or the market place is definitely an attraction and there is a fish market in which fishermen sell their fresh catch. So you can pick and choose the kind of fish that you want and take it by its tail. The Sohar castle is a top attraction of the city and is a must see for people visiting the city of Sohar and the public gardens and parks also augment the tourist importance of the city. So Sohar can easily be called one of the most popular destinations of Oman .
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