Explore Oman in Depth — and capture Your journey creatively.

Tired of surface-level travel advice about Oman?

If you’re looking for cultural insight, creative tools, and a clear roadmap to design a truly enriching and unforgettable independent trip, you’re in the right place.

Christine, the creator of Joussour to Oman, standing near a small bridge in Fanja, Oman

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Explore Oman in Depth — and capture Your journey creatively.

Tired of surface-level travel advice about Oman?

Joussour to Oman provides the cultural insight, creative tools, and clear roadmap you need to design a truly enriching and unforgettable independent trip.

Plan Your Trip Confidently

Build Deeper Cultural Understanding

Explore with Creativity

Christine van den Hogen, author of Joussour to Oman, sitting at a marble table in a stylish restaurant, wearing a red scarf and smiling warmly with a red dessert in front of her.
An open sketchbook showing delicate pencil and watercolor sketches of market finds: a silver incense burner, stacked spice jars, embroidered fabric, and a small brass lamp. Each item has a tiny handwritten note beside it. Around the sketchbook are real market touches: a woven basket edge, strands of dried herbs, and sunlight filtering across patterned tiles. Feminine, richly textured, warm-toned and realistic with a Middle Eastern market atmosphere.

You don’t want to just visit Oman. You want to experience it.

You believe travel is as much about genuine encounters as it is about the places you explore.

But right now, you’re wondering how to build that kind of experience here — and where to even begin.

I understand how frustrating and overwhelming that can feel.

I’m Christine, and I’ve been living and working in Oman for five years. During that time, I’ve travelled widely across the country and learned how meaningful experiences grow through people, conversations, and shared moments — and how visitors can access this, too.

I’ve also discovered how to use travel journaling, sketching, and mapping to deepen those encounters, turning fleeting moments into a lasting, personal record. Now, I show independent travellers like you how to access this same creative process.”

Plan Your Trip Confidently

Build Deeper Cultural Understanding

Capture your Trip Creatively

Christine van den Hogen, author of Joussour to Oman, sitting at a marble table in a stylish restaurant, wearing a red scarf and smiling warmly with a red dessert in front of her.
An open sketchbook showing delicate pencil and watercolor sketches of market finds: a silver incense burner, stacked spice jars, embroidered fabric, and a small brass lamp. Each item has a tiny handwritten note beside it. Around the sketchbook are real market touches: a woven basket edge, strands of dried herbs, and sunlight filtering across patterned tiles. Feminine, richly textured, warm-toned and realistic with a Middle Eastern market atmosphere.

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Let me guess...You’re not looking to just visit Oman — you want to experience it.

You believe travel is as much about genuine encounters as it is about the places you explore.

But right now, you’re wondering how to build that kind of experience here — and where to even begin.

I understand this can feel frustrating and overwhelming.

I’m Christine, a writer and watercolourist, living and working in Oman for five years. During that time, I’ve travelled widely across the country and learned how meaningful experiences grow through people, conversations, and shared moments — and how visitors can access this, too.

I’ve also discovered how to use travel journaling, sketching, and mapping to deepen those encounters, turning fleeting moments into a lasting, personal record. Now, I show independent travellers like you how to access this same creative process.”

Step inside and discover expert travel advice and authentic glimpses into Omani culture.

Learn more about my journey, experiences, and the path that brought me here today.

I help travellers bring Omani culture home through food, craft, and creative journaling/storytelling.

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