🐢 Wildlife Reserve📍 Ash Sharqiyah🚗 Standard car
Ras Al Jinz Turtle Reserve
Twenty thousand green turtles return here every year — the largest nesting aggregation in the Indian Ocean, watched by guided torchlight at the edge of Arabia.
Al Sharqiyah
Twenty thousand green turtles return here every year — the largest nesting aggregation in the Indian Ocean, watched by guided torchlight at the edge of Arabia.
Al Sharqiyah
At 2am on the beach at Ras Al Jinz, a female green turtle that has navigated the Indian Ocean using the earth's magnetic field surfaces through the waves and begins the slow crawl up the sand to the precise spot where she was born — a 200-kilogram animal acting on a biological instruction so old it predates the Arabian Peninsula in its current form.
Approximately 20,000 females return to this one beach every year to nest — the largest known green turtle nesting aggregation in the Indian Ocean — and the guided night tours keep strict red-light-only protocols tight enough to observe without disturbing. The reserve's museum explains the full lifecycle and conservation pressures in a way that makes the night tour feel like the correct conclusion of something you have been learning all day. Book months in advance for July through October; the reserve sells out completely.
A curated selection of moments from the Al Sharqiyah.
About 400 km / 4 hours from Muscat. Located at the easternmost tip of Oman, 45 minutes south of Sur. Standard car is fine.
These operators offer guided tours and experiences at Wadi Hoqain — from half-day swims to full overnight treks. Book directly through them for the best experience.