Global Food Tour

Chapter 185 Go to the oasis in the desert to find frankincense. 【Third update】

Driving to the urban area with a wet body, on the way back to the urban area, there are patches of coconut groves, which are actually on the edge of the desert.

On the road, I saw herds of camels from time to time. At first glance, I thought they were wild, but when I looked carefully, I found out that they were raised, but I couldn’t see a few people herding the camels. Zhang Feng didn’t think that the camels in the herds were just Let them go there by themselves, not afraid of getting lost?Not afraid of theft?
But if you think about it carefully, most of the camels here are single-humped and cannot be ridden. I feel that it is not very useful to steal them, and they have to be dragged and run.

After returning to the urban area, I took a shower, packed up, chatted with the English-speaking waiter in the hotel, got a general understanding of the city of Salalah, and went out.

I drove slowly to a street called Golden Street, which is similar to a domestic pedestrian street. There are surprisingly no restrictions on vehicles. There are various boutiques on both sides, mainly selling gold and silver jewelry and souvenirs.

Zhang Feng stopped at a shop selling Arabian scimitars. The Arabian scimitars are all beautifully decorated with all kinds of shiny stones, but according to the hotel waiter, most of them can’t be pulled out, and they are quite golden. Outside, the meaning of ruining it.

After entering the store, the boss warmly received Zhang Feng, introduced various knives to Zhang Feng, and introduced the knives that can be checked in. Zhang Feng pulled out a knife casually and asked the Arab who is very good in English : "Is this knife sharp?"

"Of course." The boss said.

"Are you sure?" Zhang Feng asked again, feeling very playful.

"determine."

"Then let me try?"

"You try."

"If it's broken, don't look for me." The smile on Zhang Feng's face was playful.

But the boss who was annoyed by the question naturally said casually: "I'm not looking for you."

But the next moment, the boss was dumbfounded. When Zhang Feng exerted force on his hand, the whole knife was bent. It was still said to be sharp, and it would definitely curl when cutting hard bones.

"Boss, your knife can't cut bones!" Zhang Feng said helplessly.

The boss was a little frightened and stupid. The knife was fine just now, but it was bent by the young man in front of him in an instant. Then he remembered what he said just now, and was very embarrassed for a while. Fortunately, Zhang Feng asked in a very routine way. : "Boss, how much is this knife, I will pay for it."

"Well, how can you pay for this? We Arabs are the most trustworthy, and I won't pay if I don't ask you to." The boss replied.

"Then I won't pay. Boss, you are so kind. Do you have a real knife? I need a knife for cutting fruit." Zhang Feng said with a smile.

The boss didn't expect Zhang Feng to go downhill so quickly, so he could only smile awkwardly, and said: "I am a work of art, a work of art, if you want a good knife, go buy it from some people who live in the desert. "

"Okay, thank you, boss, goodbye." Zhang Feng left the shop with a smile on his face, more or less trying to make fun of him.

I took a brief stroll on Golden Street, and it was almost noon, because I was warned by the waiter to try not to eat outside. The reason is that many small restaurants here are not up to standard, and the cups used by the customers in front of the small cafes are rinsed with water. Just for the guests behind, I don't know if the water is dry or not, and so on, so Zhang Feng returned to the place where he lived for lunch.

Maybe it's because he doesn't like meat, even if it's chicken, Zhang Feng is very happy to eat it.

After eating, we drove to the first stop of the day - the Tomb of the Prophet.

The tomb of the prophet is a courtyard. When you go in, it looks like a big garden. There are all kinds of decorations with this special meaning. Various pottery pots are not uncommon. There are also many words carved on the surrounding walls. Although it is July In this hot season in many parts of the world, there are not many flowers blooming, but there are many here, and it seems that there is some kind of power to keep them blooming.

Of course, this is just Zhang Feng's unfounded fantasy, but in a city in the desert, Zhang Feng has to lament the persistence of the local people to see such lush flowers and plants.

Salalah is the best city in the entire Arabian Peninsula in terms of climate. The year is divided into a dry season and a rainy season. The rainy season is from June to September, and the rest are dry seasons.On the way to the Prophet’s Tomb, it can be described as desolate. It seems that there is not much rain in the rainy season. Zhang Feng was not very optimistic about this trip, but when he entered this courtyard, he suddenly felt like a world away. It can be seen that the Arabs Zhang Feng has a little admiration for his devotion to religion.

Before I walked far, I came to the footprints of the Prophet. The footprints of the Prophet were surrounded by cement. One of the footprints was not very clear. There were 5 small pits connected to it, which should be toes, but it is more than the footprints of normal people. A lot bigger, if calculated by the toes.

Stopping and stopping, Zhang Feng wandered around this place for a long time, trying to find something that would shake his soul, but he failed. After searching for a long time, he found nothing, and there seemed to be nothing strange about it.

After leaving the prophet's cemetery, Zhang Feng drove to the next destination - the desert oasis.

Desert oasis is always a place that people yearn for. You must know how good it is to see a touch of green in a wasteland. The camels along the road are unhurried and leisurely. There are many signs on the road asking vehicles to avoid camels, so They didn't interfere with each other, and the camels were used to seeing cars, and sometimes they would turn their heads to see what the people in the cars were doing.

Zhang Feng occasionally greeted the camels foolishly, with a sense of man and nature.

The oasis in the desert is a good place to look for "frankincense". Frankincense is a specialty of Oman. One of the incenses called frankincense is said to be superior.It is said to have the effect of treating headaches, and the price is also differentiated according to different qualities. The best quality is in the form of large green granules, and the price is 200 Omani rials/500g.

It may not seem expensive, but after considering two hundred times twenty and converting it into RMB, you will find that it is really not cheap.

While eating the frankincense, Zhang Feng felt that the taste was not bad, so he bought some, and exchanged with the boss about the production process of frankincense. He always thought that frankincense was made of milk, but after the boss introduced it, Zhang Feng could be regarded as literate.

Every April to June is the harvest season of frankincense, and the way of harvesting frankincense by hand has not changed for thousands of years.People use a special tool like a knife to carefully scrape off the ash bark on the outer layer of the frankincense tree, and drops of white resin will ooze from the cut.

After a few weeks, the resin solidifies into a translucent pellet that workers scrape off to allow the incisions to continue to secrete resin. At the beginning of September, after the rainy season brought by the monsoon, the ground gradually dries up and camels can walk on it. People began to transport frankincense to Salalah, the capital of Dhofar.

Months of hard work paid off, people were in high spirits, singing and dancing to celebrate the harvest, busy paying off debts, organizing marriages, buying cattle, sheep and daily necessities, and children put on new clothes.

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It may be that the boss said it vividly, so Zhang Feng could actually imagine the scene when he heard it: "The joy of the harvest makes people smile on their faces, their hearts are filled with joy, and their eyes are shining with hope."

　ps: Thank you Xiao Qi for the reward of [-] coins, and thank you Wang Qihui and Bian Mandala for the reward of [-] coins each.

　　
　
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