Raysūt

Raysut lies on the coast of Dhofar, west of the fertile plain around Salalah. Its natural harbour faces the Arabian Sea, while the mountains behind the coast catch the summer monsoon and nourish the landscape of southern Oman. Dhofar was renowned for frankincense, the fragrant resin gathered from trees of the interior and carried toward ports on this shore. The harbour at Raysut belongs to a coast long visited by ships moving between Arabia, East Africa and India.