Country Info
- Manama
- Capital
- Bahraini Dinar (BHD)
- Currency
- 645,361
- Population
- BH
- Country Code
Bahrain Slideshow
Bahrain
Travel Blogs from Bahrain, Bahrain
Bahrain
... of Bahrain was born. (Many places close at 2:00 PM.) We drove past the causeway to Saudi Arabia, past the Formula One Bahrain International Raceway, and found ourselves at the Al Areen Wildlife Park. The park was created in 1976 for the pleasure of the ...
Manama
We did several port stops here while in the Persian Gulf. We were also supposed to go to Kuwait City, but because of an assignation attempt upon then President George H W Bush, the port stop was canceled and we sat about 5 miles away from Kuwait on the ...
Bahrain
To get to the Kingdom of Bahrain, I had to fly over Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. It was kinda weird when we flew over Baghdad, since we had just recently destroyed the lives of so many people in that country. I have a short ...
Yalla Bahrain
I came here in Bahrain for a two year contract to work as an interior designer and I'm on my last leg of that contract. After a few months I'll be going home to my ...
moving away!
... all the family! Tomorrow morning my flight leaves to Norfolk with one stop along the way! Then From Norfolk all the way to Bahrain! I am completely packed and ready to see Derrik again! I will try to stay on top of emailing and blogging to keep everyone ...
Awesome Hotel..!
The Elite Seef Residence Hotel, Bahrain. This beautiful hotel is located centrally in the Seef area of Bahrain. Perfectly placed near the malls yet having its own privacy without the disturbance of any noise. It has one, two and three bedroom suites for ...
Rocking out
Ok so here's the update. Today was totally awesome. Being as how the outside temperature is in the 100s and around 40% humidity we stay inside all day and at night we go out to play. Well I tried to stay inside. Inside of a pretty cool mall. I got my ...
Transfert a Bahrein
Petit arret a Bahrein sur le trajet ... le temps de visiter le salon affaire et poster quelques emails... les transferts sont toujours charmant ! ! ...
Bahrain
Huge steak in American base!!!!!!..... not much to see in the dessert but i was in an American Soil (when i was inside the American ...
A Fancy Gala
... I even got to show off my arabic skills. The event was cool for me to witness just how big the whole organization is in Bahrain. I made countless more friends to hang out with on the weekends and I look forward to spending more time with them. Don't worry ...
Weekends in Bahrain
... Stone Creamery and yes, an Applebee's just outside the mall. If someone blindfolded me and dropped me off in a mall in Bahrain, I wouldn't know I left the U.S. Although the Arabic writing under the American store name does kind of give it away. I decided ...
Bahrain - the pearl of the Gulf
Loved my stay in Bahrain, was amazing! Ahh were do i start? Well for starters when i arrived and had a shower the water was salty, the taps were all producing salty water which was different. With a walking distance from the Fursan hotel to the local ...
A "Free" Stopover in Where?
We hate to admit this but we didn't really know where Bahrain was until it became a stopover for us. We soon discovered it's really expensive and it might not have been such a great price on our ticket to have an overnight layover in Bahrain. Shari ...
Cooking!
So Today is Sunday the 24th. Derrik is working today and I am attempting to play the video game he got me for Christmas but still cannot figure out how to work the tv. Derrik has showed me atleast three times but everything here has so many extra buttons ...
Five Random Observations
1. For weeks Michael and I have noticed cars that are spray-painted to look like they have been dune bashing and are thus covered with sand. We've had fun guessing what the reason might be for the -- dare I say redneck? -- decor. Since sand covers ...
Bahrain, Kingdom (Middle East)
... the transit fly will continue at this midnight to reach paris at early morning 7. the building that reserve my memory with Bahrain is this twin tower. another photo on the evening/night at Bahrain. This is the photo I taken during reach ...
Jet Lag!
... to Australia this was the longest journey I've ever done – around 27 hours in total including a seven hour wait in Bahrain. Neither of us had flown Gulf Air before but were very impressed, friendly, attentive staff, loads of free food and drinks, ...
Meet the Military, See the Country Club!
... than a large shovel by about 70 cents. Go figure! We finished at Geant, where we also went to pick up the Bahrain mug only to find Starbucks closed, and headed for Dana Mall to see The Simpsons Movie. Homer warned us about paying to watch what ...
Tired with a little bit of iced tea
So for the past two days I have been traveling. On thursday the 10th of june I left my house in Redwood city at 5am. I arrived in Manama at 9:15 pm on the 11th of June. I had two stops one at JFK in New York and the other at Schipol in Amsterdam. I tried ...
Taxi to Manama
Had a good taxi ride to Manama. It only took 1 hour as immigration control on the causeway was not backed up as it sometimes can be. I've been told to allow 5 hours before flight in case immigration is backed up. Was dropped off at the ...
