well Dubai is a city of contradictions, with traditional buildings alongside massive sky scrapers and souk markets alongside massive department shopping balls its quite strange to see.
we have discovered the best way to travel here is in taxi they are quite cheap but you can wait anything from 5 minutes to 2 hours to catch one all depends on what time you want to go or luck not really sure!
we jumped on to the hop on hop off bus tour again to finish our 24 hours and ended up at one of the big shopping centres to have a look around, all the malls are the same yet different, the good thing here is that food and drinks are much cheaper especially compared to France!
In the week in Dubai we visited the Museum which was fantastic from the outside it looks like a small building with not really much to grab you in but when inside it goes underground and is fantastic with a mini wax museum like display of the history of the UAE very good.
We wondered through all the souks the textile, gold and old souks they are amazing but you definitely need to do this early evening they come to life and it is much cooler.
We crossed the creek in an Abra (small open boat) very cheap and quite easy to jump on and off on both sides .
We had a great time jewellery shopping at the gold and diamond park we had been given advice that for serious jewellery shopping it is best to do it here not at the souk the prices are the same but it Karen and Emma will be very happy!!!
I bought some diamond earrings a bit of a splurge but they are gorgeous.
On Friday given that most everything is closed until about 4 pm so the men can pray we ventured out to jamira this is the complex featured on getaway a few months ago it has an inside souk in the middle of two big hotels and is set up with venetian type alleys to travel around on, it was beautiful if only we could have stayed there would definitely have been like living the good life.
Overall we had a great time in Dubai very different from France and I think if we went again in 2 years it will be completely different again
we have discovered the best way to travel here is in taxi they are quite cheap but you can wait anything from 5 minutes to 2 hours to catch one all depends on what time you want to go or luck not really sure!
we jumped on to the hop on hop off bus tour again to finish our 24 hours and ended up at one of the big shopping centres to have a look around, all the malls are the same yet different, the good thing here is that food and drinks are much cheaper especially compared to France!
In the week in Dubai we visited the Museum which was fantastic from the outside it looks like a small building with not really much to grab you in but when inside it goes underground and is fantastic with a mini wax museum like display of the history of the UAE very good.
We wondered through all the souks the textile, gold and old souks they are amazing but you definitely need to do this early evening they come to life and it is much cooler.
We crossed the creek in an Abra (small open boat) very cheap and quite easy to jump on and off on both sides .
We had a great time jewellery shopping at the gold and diamond park we had been given advice that for serious jewellery shopping it is best to do it here not at the souk the prices are the same but it Karen and Emma will be very happy!!!
I bought some diamond earrings a bit of a splurge but they are gorgeous.
On Friday given that most everything is closed until about 4 pm so the men can pray we ventured out to jamira this is the complex featured on getaway a few months ago it has an inside souk in the middle of two big hotels and is set up with venetian type alleys to travel around on, it was beautiful if only we could have stayed there would definitely have been like living the good life.
Overall we had a great time in Dubai very different from France and I think if we went again in 2 years it will be completely different again
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