Perched on a ledge, the old town of Birkit Al Mawz, known as the rainbow city due to the anticlinal strata behind the town on the jebels.

A better view of the old town of Birkit Al Mawz. Well irrigated date palms grow beneath the town.

The new town of Birkit Al Mawz, on the other side of the highway

The date palms and the falaj that brings water from the jebels to irrigate them.

In Birkit Al Mawz with our guide Peter J. Ochs II (Peachy), the author of the Maverick Guide to Oman.

Birkit Al Mawz