Today was an extremely relaxed day. Our flight would leave that night at 8.40 pm and we had nothing else planned on that day. In the end, we actually stuck around at our guesthouse until 3 pm, with a bit of coffee and lunch in between to kill the time.

The trip to the airport was pleasantly uneventful. The taxi driver for once did not try to fleece us and the train link out of town is new, clean and efficient.

There was one surprise waiting on us at the airport, though. We went to the check-in counter first thing to find out why we were unable to use the online check in. They told us that they would need to verify out credit card to get the boarding cards. This turned out to be code for “trying to find how you will leave again”. When obviously no onward flights were found, I had to explain myself. The check-in staff was pretty surprised by the explanation and all of a sudden seemed mighty impressed. Someone must have checked out if there really is a ferry going into Iran in the background and when this came back positive, we were sent on our way with temporary boarding cards. We did get the final ones at the gate, much to Nina’s relief.

OmanAir was pretty amazing as far as airlines go. We were on a brand new Dreamliner, with plenty of leg space, top in-flight entertainment and plenty of decent food. So with the soundtrack of “Creed”, we launched into the night.

Goodbye Southeast Asia!