United Arab Emirates Travel Blogs

... Beach where I sat for a few hours catching some rays in the park. Then I decided to have a walk along to see the Burj al Arab. From the park it looked about a 10 minute walk....the reality of it was that it was closer to a 2 HOUR walk! Fortunately, I ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by chrisuk07
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... the hotel's health club, I got myself dressed and this time hopped into a yellow cab to head accross to the Mall of the Emirates. Fortunatley, the yellow cab rate is far more desirable than the "executive taxi" the hotel booked for me. Even so, it all ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by chrisuk07
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Hello to all the friends and family of Pete and Mandy Hutch. Shane and I were invited to submit the Emirates-leg of their journey, as special guest bloggers! It's going to be hard to compete with Pete's vivid entries...but we'll give it a burl. Day 1 ...

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by peteandmandy
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A travel blog entry from Dubai by peteandmandy
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... I will have to go back to Dubai because apparently you aren't even allowed to leave the airport when you are connecting on Emirates, no matter how long your layover is... I finish catching up on my blog and sleep before boarding another plane headed to ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by madman96
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... of us staged a minor demonstration by refusing to go right back to the main area, a place full of shops, irritating staring Arab men and totally devoid of seats. Instead we sat down in the corridor, against the wall, beyond the security checkpoint. The ...

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by izzie
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He Said: Being an economics teacher, when I travel I tend to see countries through that frame. The United Arab Emirates has really piqued my interest on how their huge boom has evolved. I have so many questions about what enabled this tiny nation to ...

A travel blog entry from Al-Ain by globedecker
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We were thinking what could we do in Dubai with so much sand around? Let's go dune bashing in a four wheel drive, ride a camel and do some belly dancing! Initially we had planned to do a desert safari in Oman thinking it would be cheaper as it is less ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by eatdessertfirst
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... our newfound friend Sam from Canberra we headed out of the park to check out the massive 7 star hotel well known by all, Burj Al Arab. Funnily enough they wouldn't let us in for a look but we headed to the local public beach to watch the sun set and the ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by eatdessertfirst
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... top.  Not the first time I've been here but it continues to amaze each time.  In about an hour I hop on another Emirates flight to Osaka...I'm sure it'll be over 10 hours but I haven't confirmed that yet.  Luckily, I have my business class ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by tracystravels
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Our aim was to try and get a transit visa so we could possibly meet a few friends for lunch but once again the 'Curse of the little green book' struck and we were told the only way we would get a visa on arrival would be if we booked a nights ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by vine_hooligans
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... . Anyone heard of this place, we hadn't! It is a small country near Saudia Arabia. I don't know if it is part of the United Arab Emirates, but Qatar did not show up on the list of countries for the map on this site. So I choose the Emirates since it is ...

A travel blog entry from Doha by audreyandjack
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We Said: This morning we drove back to the UAE for our last taste of the Western world for a few months. Tomorrow we are flying to Mombasa, Kenya to start our African adventure. In the next few months Internet access will probably be slow and sporadic ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by globedecker
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... Prior to the controversy a few months back when a number of US ports were purchased by a Dubai company, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates were certainly not on the radar of most Westerners. That's not a big surprise, it is a tiny nation and other than ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by globedecker
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A travel blog entry from Dubai by vine_hooligans
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People often wrongly assume Dubai is the capital of the UAE but Abu Dhabi has that honour and in our minds and memories also the honour of being the capital of "phone a friend" taxi drivers! This is the practice mentioned in our Dubai ...

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by heatheravan
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... working as cabin crew for the airline made it interesting as we could closer imagine her day to day work and appreciate that Emirates really is a classy airline and worthy of its many industry awards. The terminal was brand new and we were amused at ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by heatheravan
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... any 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 ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by eatdessertfirst
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... all kinds of music (I jammed to Arabic pop), music videos, and games.  The first 6-hour flight to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates flew by.  It's also cool because we flew over some hotspots that are in the news every once in a while.  ...

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by dane
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At the end of day 1 [and technically I'm not even there yet] I'm having to amend my list to include, 1d) times I got completely lost. Having said that, I wasn't lost - I knew exactly where I was, just not where I was meant to be... Rewind a little. ...

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by izzie
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A quick stopover. A bland airport. Lots of sand visible. That, unfortunately, was Abu Dhabi for me.

A travel blog entry from Abu Dhabi by djchurch
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... Dubai, the jewel of the Arab world, is one of the 7 emirates that make up the oil-rich Persian Gulf country, The United Arab Emirates. The tiny emirate, twice the size of London, is a kingdom built on the profits of its oil reserves and so one shouldn't ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by byrnedm
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... , the guy got up and started screaming and shoving his finger in Shady's chest. He said he was being mistreated because he was Arab. There were plenty of other Arabs on the plane, though, this guy was only being "mistreated" because he had lost his mind. ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by danblank
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Background Back in April I had been researching places to go on holiday. I hadn't been away properly since returning from travelling for a year so I wanted to go somewhere a little different and exotic. The main criteria was to choose somewhere small ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by rbisset
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A tour of Dubai I met up with an Uncle of mine who took me on an excellent tour of Dubai. He rightly guessed I was interested in architecture and, I was not disappointed, have a look at the pictures of you don't believe me! We went out to eat in a ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by ramdux
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Finally we have saved enough money to runaway ! We broke our journey in Dubai again, and spent our time wondering around areas we havenīt visited before. This mainly involved trying to stay in the shade as much as possible ( we have just spent the winter ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by m-and-c
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... like a shopping mall at Christmas even at 1:00 in the morning.  Even better, because we were waiting so long, Emirates gave us a wonderful free buffet meal at its hotel restaurant.  They had chocolate mousse for dessert.  We also got ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by youngtravellers
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... 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 and Pakistan. ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by ramdux
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It all started as a crazy idea! One night in early March, while waiting for Inge-Marie to get ready for a Dow dinner with friends on the Dubai creek I started watching the travel Channel. A show was on about a guy called the 'Thirsty Traveler' who gets ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by vine_hooligans
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Brrrrrrrrrr... Everywhere is cold; taxi's, shops, hotels... of course I'm talking about the abundance of air conditioning around here, its everywhere. However, the heat is not as bad as the common view of this place is. Daily temperatures reach around 43 ...

A travel blog entry from Dubai by ramdux
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