Bahrain Travel Blogs

a connecting flight to Bahrain
Jul 12, 2008

connecting flight to Bahrain before connecting to Cairo, Egypt.

Airport Observations
Sep 27, 2006

Flight from Athens to Bahrain was unremarkable. However, my first taste of culture shock occurred as I enterered the Bahrain airport. In case you do not know, Bahrain is an island in the Middle East. There are signs in English and Arabic. Turkish ...

The Legend That Is Brian Campbell
Jul 4, 2006

7 days until the wedding... I made a point of being in Bahrain on Brian Campbell's birthday. This is not an entry...this is just a tribute.

Monthly Wrap Up
Jun 9, 2007

Wow, so I just spent a good 2 hours piecing together my Bahrain trip, only for it to all get erased. So instead of immediately retyping that incredibly long entry, I'll just save it for later and do this one dedicated to what I've learned in my first month ...

Bahrain
Nov 26, 2008

Wednesday 26 th November 2008 Bahrain airport the sun's coming up and it's warm!   Oh the joys of travelling.  My laptop says 0334 but it's 0634 in Bahrain and it's getting light outside.  My body needs to sleep but ...

Bahrain by car.
Dec 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... "carpenter". Well, duh. I think I'm just spoiled by the wonderful reveal of the Dubai museum. So that completes my time in Bahrain; a small country that's nice enough, I guess, but not a real metropolis like Dubai. It's trying hard, and there's plenty ...

Homeward bound via Bahrain
Oct 16, 2009

... fly through the night back to England We wanted to surprise a few folks so have sneaked home quietly. Never the less, Bahrain International Airport looked very nice at midnight, all lit up. This small island state lies in the Persion Gulf  ...

Bahrain by foot.
Dec 16, 2007 (4 photos)

... the middle of the city. So I walk, through the diplomatic area and past the new commercial district rising rapidly -- the Bahrain World Trade Center is a really neat two-tower building forming a point at the top, but with turbines between the buildings ...

Anniversary in Bahrain
Jan 18, 2007 (22 photos)

... Mall (has a large theatre complex), Al Seef Mall (biggest and best), Al A'ali Mall (exclusive expensive shops) and Geant Mall (Bahrain Mall). The National Museum on the Corniche was well worth the 1 BD (500 fils each). Had a good history of Bahrain and ...

Bahrain National Airport
Aug 1, 2007

Bahrain Airport, stopped for 3 hours, really clean and friendly people, 100 degrees at 7am!!!!! Excellent flights, goodjourney!!!

Tallinn-Frankfurt-Bahrain-Singapore-Sydney
Dec 3, 2005 (5 photos)

On the morning of first December I took my backpack(which weighed 16 kg, not too bad but could be better) and stepped out of the door. Walking towards the bus stop i tried to implant it to my mind that i am leaving home for a quite long time. No success. ...

Back In Bahrain
Aug 10, 2003 (5 photos)

... a little above zero so it was a bit of a shock to step out of the hotel into the searing 370 heat of a Bahrain morning. Three other Australians joined us before we drove to our first destination, a genuine Islamic mosque (the only mosque in Manama open ...

Mana-Rama
Jun 9, 2007

... told me "Manama is the Las Vegas of the Middle East" and he further claimed that citizens of Dubai are always coming to Bahrain for its great shopping... I refused to argue with this man, when your in such delirium there is no point in trying to convince ...

Bahrain is insain!
Nov 14, 2006 (5 photos)

... it, there was something peculiar about it. Behind the large panorama of the Manama skyline featuring the brand-new Bahrain International Financial Harbor, the buildings themselves looked different. In fact, they were completely unfinished. Of the five ...

Bahrain
May 5, 2007

A stop.

Bahrain
Jul 3, 2007 (4 photos)

We had a day stopover in the Middle East.

Back to the good old UK?
Aug 21, 2008 (5 photos)

... bags. Arrived in lots of time to book in. Hels noticed when we were given our tickets that on the first plane ride to Bahrain they had sat us apart. Hels told the girl a long story about never spending more than three hours apart in six months and that ...

Bab Al-Bahrain
Jun 6, 2007

... more sightly then the others, although overall, much of the city is pretty trashy. For most travelers I would not recommend Bahrain as a visit, maybe a stopover on a connecting flight, otherwise its really not worth your time. There are a couple of minor ...

Cairo to Bahrain
Nov 17, 2006 (3 photos)

... we visited are our opinions, not everyones. We did enjoy it, it was just rougher than we expected. We arrived in Bahrain about 7PM, we couldn't belive the terminal. It was all decorated for Christmas, Santa, snowman, Christmas music. It really hit us ...

2 Days in Bahrain
Jun 4, 2005 (1 photos)

... that is technically not pc. meh. On the island is a fairly large U.S. military base. Haji told me that upon visiting BaHrain, I might understand why some Middle Easterners have such a bad opinion of Americans...and boy was he right. I am not going to ...

Overnight in Bahrain
Jul 31, 2003

... a young man who was visiting his sister in England. She established an immediate friendship with him that lasted until we reached Bahrain and we parted company. By an amazing coincidence we found ourselves on the same plane six weeks later on the way home ...

I got locked in a store because of Ramadan
Sep 4, 2008

... forth and wondering how in the world I would get out just to learn that is all he meant by I can't leave the mall. Bahrain is the most liberal of the Gulf States and Saudis cross the causeway to come here for smoking, booze and ladies from Russia.  ...

Middle East Stopover
Jan 21, 2005

... , it's an archipelago on the "Arabian Gulf" and the capitol city is connected to Saudi Arabia by a long bridge. Evidently Bahrain is a huge tourist destination, especially within the Middle East, because they are far less conservative than most of their ...

Bahrain
Jan 19, 2006

... feet in the men's room sinks as well as men trying to wash in a chest high fountain shaped like a boat. Boarding the plane in Bahrain was even more time consuming than it was in Cairo and then the plane broke. The A340 we were to fly on developed a ...

15th December 2005
Dec 16, 2005

We worked at the Bahrain formula one circuit for a company called FLying Elephant, the track was 1 hours drive away from the hotel in the middle of the desert!!! The track was awesome but I never knew formula cars were so loud, you actually couldn't hear ...

Ghost town
Apr 1, 2009

... that I had been having some money trouble when I left India, well I found to my delight that my card worked perfectly in Bahrain and it was a good thing it did. Feeling good, with cash in pocket I approached the taxi stand clutching an address for one ...

Manama - I'm Pinky in Bahrain
Oct 27, 2006 (2 photos)

... to Islam), and modern art (some really cool stuff - check out the pictures once I find a place with a decent Internet connection). Bahrain has been fun, though I am looking forward to moving on to India. Who knows though, as more and more money floods ...

Leaving the Middle East Later Today
Sep 4, 2008 (6 photos)

... far as you can get. Manama is a pleasant enough little place although fading a bit on the side streets behind the new skyscrapers.  Bahrain is one of those places I have always wanted to go to for some reason since I was a kid.  Maybe it was ...

Stopover
Oct 27, 2006

Made it to Bahrain. Nice enough flight but there seemed to be a lot of people complaining and a lot of babies crying plus one guy getting very, very drunk. Anyway, I'm in the waiting lounge to connect to Mumbai and there's free espresso and bourbon ...

Flying thru Bahrain
Apr 1, 2008 (12 photos)

... nbsp; Not too much to look at but a few mountains, desert, and more desert.  According to a magazine on the plane, Bahrain is the financial hub of the Middle East but it doenst look like much, just two skyscrapers in the middle of nowhere.& ...