
Oman's Alila Jabal Akhdar: The hotel on the rooftop of Arabia
CNN
With a thrilling via ferrata climbing route, the Alila Jabal Akhdar mixes luxury with adrenaline-charged leisure
(CNN) — "Don't worry, it'll be a walk in the park," says Ali, the senior climbing instructor at Alila Jabal Akhdar, a luxury hotel in the mountains of Oman.
We're getting ready to climb the hotel's via ferrata, the highest protected climbing path in the Middle East.
It begins at the foot of the mountaintop property, situated 2,000 meters above sea level in Oman's Al Hajar mountain range, before snaking down a cliff through a cave and up a sharp vertical rock face before culminating in a wire bridge suspended twenty meters above the valley.

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