"Loneliness is not living alone, loneliness is the inability to keep someone or something within us company, it is not a tree that stands alone in the middle of a plain but the distance between the deep sap and the bark, between the leaves and the roots". - José Saramago The khareef season in Dhofar attracts attracts several tourists from arabic countries that escape from the heat for cooler climate during the khareef season (monsoon)