First of all .. an update about my Royal Enfield Himalayan "Basanti".. She has been shipped out of Kuala Lumpur, but not via a direct flight so she is still waiting to be loaded on the next flight to Oman. In the meantime, I am riding with Peter from Oryx Adventures (https://www.oryxadventures.com​), to explore Oman on a 450 cc, CCM Adventure bike! This day we are riding up the Salmah plateau and this was definitely a lot harder than any of the terrain I encountered before! It was good that I got to practice new techniques and improve my skills in the previous riding days otherwise I don't think I would have made it up the mountain! Because it was such a long riding day, I made it into 2 parts .. this is Part 1 of riding up the Salmah Plateau..