Dubai Museum

Today was the day to venture out into the city (under the watchful eye of Arabian Adventures tour guide Anwar) and see the new and old parts of the city. We visited the late Sheik's Summer House of the 1950's, the Dubai Heritage Village, Dubai Museum, taxied across Dubai Creek on an 'abra' (water taxi) , and last but not least, made our way through …

We stayed for four amazing days in Dubai and loved every minute however it's not a backpacker destination because it's rich, rich, rich. Hummers, Porsche's, palm islands and designer clothes is the typical lifestyle although no backpacker fault the shishas and beaches. On the last night we visited the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa and …

Dubai was definitely not on our list, we decided to come only as it was a good stop-over on our way to Kenya. We booked our room at the XVA gallery as it seemed arty, and special. They arranged the pick-up at the airport, which was a great idea, as you cannot reach the hotel by car because it is in the old town. The rooms were like in 1001 nights, …

After being diagnosed with a parasite and armed with a course of tablets to curb it once and for all, we are ready to complete our final destination - Dubai.

Dubai is very opulent. It has everything you would find in South East Qld all jammed into one city. Dubai's shopping malls have every label/designer you can think of, and more! Its …

Very slow start to the day today, taking full advantage of my last day on holiday. I spent the morning catching up on reviewing all my photos lunching in my room before heading out for the City of Merchants tour.

The tour gave me an insight into Dubai's history. Our first stop was a for photos at the Burj Al Arab. We didn't actually get …

Today was brilliant! I had a fantastic time at Aquaventure Water Park with my friends! We spent the entire day there, relaxing by the pools, racing down waterslides, screaming in waterfights, oh, and i even went SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS. That would have had to be one of the most incredible experiences of my life! I got to ride on a dolphin, get …

Old town today. Got up in good time today - still in single figures. Metro down to Al Fahidi then a slightly uncertain walk down the backstreets to where I figured the Dubai museum was. Stumbled on a really nice little tea house with a courtyard sheltered from the worst of the heat and noise which was a godsend after the walk down to the Bastakia. …

Dag nummer 1 van de 90. Na een korte nacht met ongeveer 5 uurtjes slapen, ben ik na een karig ontbijt (weinig trek) het oude deel van Dubai gaan bekijken. Ik ging bij buitenkomt meteen de Burj Khalifa in de lucht zoeken, maar die was nog nergens te bekennen. Mijn hotel bevindt zich in Deira, de wijk waar ook de Gold Souk is. 'Souk' isnhet Arabische …

Dubai airport is massive, we landed to be met by our transfer and tour company Arabia Adventures who told us what to do to get through customs and where to met once we were through. They were very efficient and helpful. We arrived at hotel at about 2:30am. We were up graded to a Business class room with lounge room, small kitchen and very large …

This was the hottest day of our time in Dubai so far – but not any hotter than we had experienced in Townsville over this past summer.

We had organised a second tour in Dubai called the City of Merchants tour. We were collected from the hotel and proceeded to an area very near the Burj Al Arab to meet up with other fellow "tourists" …

... tourist information, not for lack of trying and hours of walking in the heat, we decided to head to the Mall of the Emirates. This is the largest mall in the eastern hemisphere. Aside from over 500 shops and numerous food courts it has an indoor ski ...

... prohibits it and when it cost 20Dh (GBP3) for just 330ml! Foreign Workers Some facts about Dubai: Population: c.1.5million in United Arab Emirates Percentage of population who are foreign: Very high Country most foreign workers come from: India ...

... forty minutes of standing in line before we could get a cab. Checked out the Mall of the Emirates...home of the famous middle east ski hill. Ski Dubai is as claimed.  An engineering feat, no doubt...and a tourist attraction in itself.  ...

... early so I couldn’t get the full affect. The heat was unbearable and I could see that I was losing Manish. He weathered the Dubai Museum with me and then sent me on my way via tram to Palm Island. The island is basically rows of villas all situated ...

... saying "where the Emirates staff accommodation is" - it is all over Dubai considering there are around 10,500 Emirates cabin crew living in Dubai! But the biggest barrier to success in getting where we wanted to was the language barrier. Most ...

... instantly we decided that we had seen enough, yes we didn't even get out of the cab and told him to take us to the Dubai Museum. On the way we got a first hand look at the horrible traffic situation here. It's comparable with LA because it is much worse ...

... for a dhow cruise which was a nice way to see the city. We took on a few more activities and then wandered through the museum, which was cheap and had some good set ups, located in a fort. We managed to make it back to downtown before falling asleep ...

... he nodded in acceptance.   Once back at the hotel Andrea told me how she really wants to go to the museum, beach and shopping at the local souks (which is similar to a bazaar), which our driver informed us has anything and everything ...

... was also from Kerala and had some tips for my time there... shame I didnt write any of them down.  The next stop was the Dubai museum, funny how the name Dubai is in so many place names. The museum was in a small old fort which had a most welcomming ...

... morning at Ski Dubai, however looking at the time we felt that we might not enjoy rushing for time. Instead we headed for the Dubai Museum to understand a bit more about the city and how it came about. I thought the museum was not too impressive, given ...