Abu Dhabi
Travel Blogs from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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... were getting whiter. Mandy's fingers dug into my thighs as we gripped on for the ride of a life (not unlike a taxi ride in Abu Dhabi really). We saw camels and amazing sunsets. Then Shane nearly puked. Seems the big man couldn't handle it, so we had to ...
Tripping at the last hurdle
... nearly as frustrating had I not started to really feel crap. All I wanted to do was sleep and they were disturbing me. Abu Dhabi airport is a central building with 5 spoke corridors radiating out with two or more gates situated at the end of each. There ...
14 hour layover in Abu Dhabi
... to eat chocolate cake. It's a hard life. I tried to drink water all day, but inevitably I got a headache. Eee! I'm in Abu Dhabi! Highlight of the day: watching a woman at the airport arguing with a security guard. She was determined to take the ...
Stop Over in Abu Dhabi
A quick stopover. A bland airport. Lots of sand visible. That, unfortunately, was Abu Dhabi for ...
Visiting the Blake family at their new house!
... finally a taxi came along. However, the taxi driver was from Pakistan and didn't speak any English and he had only been in Abu Dhabi for one week. I thought how could they hire someone to drive a taxi when he doesn't know the area???? ...
Short Layover in Abu Dhabi
... 50 TV shows, 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 ...
Abu Dhabi - Home Of "Phone A Friend".
... wanting to take us places, but not all had meters and attempts to have a driver understand "Heritage Village", a premier tourist site in Abu Dhabi, was just not happening. After a "phone a friend" it was still not happening, so we fell back to an ...
We are in India (but the bikes are not)
... On to the flight, struggling to conceal the fact that our hand luggage probably weighed another 20 kilos. The first flight to Abu Dhabi was good, Etihad provided good food and we enjoyed the films on show (I went for Inception which baffled me, ...
Stop in Abu Dhabi
... going to New York, Jackie had never been out of Texas that she remembered. Then after a week in NYC, she was landing in Abu Dhabi in the Middle East. I reminded her that she was flying over or near Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran. I ...
Welcome to the Middle East
... met in Bangkok and who lives in Abu Dhabi. We toured the city and went to the Abu Dhabi mall and walked the Abu Dhabi Corniche, which runs along the water and has views of Lulu Island. The city itself has beautiful public beaches with clear water. Across ...
Catching up with friends from home!
... meet them. The bus took 2 hours and it was amazing to see the tall skyscrapers and beautiful buildings from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. Dubai is definitely an architects dream city. It seems that nothing is impossible to build here, whatever you ...
What I learned from this exploring LF3
... store is the tailor at the end of the Green souq. Before I eas aleays going inside Bani Yas to have a " Kandoura " made, or to Abu Dhabi, but now it's near ro my home. And what a coincidence, I saw my friend Abdulrahman have his " Kandoura " there, and ...
Great EXPATations
We've been out of the US for one month, and are now officially residents of the United Arab Emirates! We have our national driver’s license and are leasing a Toyota Corolla (Japanese cars do best in this heat). The process has been slow-moving, but ...
LF2 Out side the Green Souq
The Green Souq has many stores, but not all of them are inside the building of souq, there are some stores out side. Like vegetables and fruits store, roastery store, also there is a store for bicycles for all ages and a grocery for light ...
Abu Dhabi
Hello again, I successfully made it to the United Arab Emerites. I stayed with a friend that I grew up with in Georgia. Her husband is currently working there. My trip was very relaxing. They actually live in a villa at a beach resort. I can't say ...
Rocking in Dubai airport
Well - since I have 9 hours sitting around this airport waiting for my flight to Dar, after a while of walking around, I've realized that there really is not much to do here besides read my book, and I'm bored of that. Why does everybody say Dubai ...
Explores in Different Ages
... , and we know many models of discoveries, even beginners had some explorers. Like when I explore the Green Souq in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. I learned mew facts about the Green Souq, and here we see the benefits of exploring in explorer life and ...
Day one...
Well we survived the first leg of the journey and are now in sunny Abu Dhabi. There were no bombs on the flight (or if there were they didn't explode), Steve was suitably impressed with the plane food and there were enough films with ...
Abu Dhabi heat
... lesson, or getting the fact that everything is closed during the day, we set off for the colossal Marina Mall out past Abu Dhabi's deserted but nice looking Corniche waterfront. Guess what, everything was closed. Maybe the heat was dulling our brains. In ...
Hogging the free internet at Abu Dhabi airport
So as you may well have gathered, i'm at Abu Dhabi airport now, in transit. I'm here for, hmmm 10 hours or so. Yeah, every person that has checked my ticket here has looked at me like a crazy person when they realise i intend on staying at the airport all ...
Armed Forces Officers Club: Abu Dhabi
My first trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Phoenix Productions had a show, while I was Stillman Theater and pyrotechnics shooter, in front of sheik royalty at the Armed Forces Officers Club, a 5-star hotel and military officer's playground. ...
Result just in from Abu Dhabi: Taxis 0, Hodgsons 1
... in the UK on to GMT, we are now 4 hours in front of UK time. As you can see from the title our second experience of Abu Dhabi was a battle with the scum of the taxi drivers. As by now is customary, the distinct lack of direction meant that we just ...
Interview with Vegetable and Fruit Vendor SF3
Last weekend, I went to the Green Souq to conduct an interview with vegetable and fruit vendor. I asked him some questions. And I know many information about the number of people who buy from him every day. He told me that he saw ...
Bahrain National Airport
Bahrain Airport, stopped for 3 hours, really clean and friendly people, 100 degrees at 7am!!!!! Excellent flights, ...
In transit
Here we are...Sash and I...waiting for our flight to Kathmandu, which is ONLY 9 hours away! The airport is dull here in Abu Dhabi, but the flight was really great! No food though...and Sash and I are probably going to start taking bites out of each ...
Abu Dhabi in a Day
... of the UAE like the US, each Emirate is a different state. Just as you have Penn, NJ, and NY, here you have 7 Emirates, Sharjah, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi being the most prominent. So we hoped on a bus bound for Abu Dhabi, it cost only 15 Dirhams!($4) Which is ...

