Amwaj Rotana Resort Dubai

... it is really amazing. Right from the entry ramp - see photo - it's an awesome place, and inside it's even more fantastic. We were greeted with fresh dates when we arrived, there's an amazing dancing fountain in the foyer, we took the lift to the 27th floor restaurant to get a view, but we only could get a glimpse as it was booked out ...

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We arrived safe and sound in Dubai after a pretty unevenful 10 1/2 hour flight from Perth. From there things went a little south, as our hotel that mum had booked told us that they didn't have a spare room for us, but they had given us another room at the Marriot hotel around the corner - and from there things started looking up again. We were put into a massive 2 bedroom suite overlooking the Palm Atlantis hotel. So we had two ...

... that, because of Ramadan, there would be no alcohol or belly dancing, so I was surprised when a man came out to dance. He spun in circles with little circle trays/hats, spinning his head to keep from getting dizzy. I was impressed at the workout in this heat/humidity and thought it was funny when the lights came on in his outfit----traditional Arabian style I'm sure. The whole dance seemed more Moroccan or North African than Arabian. After his dance, he had women come up and ...

... We found we were probably the only tourists on a packed bus. The bus goes to the clock tower in Deira, if we had know we would have just taken a taxi from our hotel to the clock tower and caught the bus to the mall. It is run on a schedule, Dubai Mall web site may have the schedule on it. The Mall of the Emirates probably has a shuttle too! Plan for it taking longer than you expect, traffic is slow moving. The sky train is expected to be completed in September, 2009.

Je cesse avec ces petits paragraphes pour maintenant aborder ce qui fut l'étape finale de mon voyage "musulman" (comme je suis venu à le baptiser auprès des kopins rencontrés en chemin) : Dubaï. Arriver par avion fut, une nouvelle fois, l'occasion d'avoir une brève vue d'ensemble ; celle des Emirats Arabes ...

... the dhow again, and began our daytime exploration of the western creek area. Here we walked along the length of the grand mosque and into the bastika area where the original settlement began. As hunger struck, we found ourselves looking for 'authentic' cuisine, which we abandoned after half an hour of searching in the scorching heat. Ultimately, we chose a tiny and suspicious Sri Lankan restaurant (which overstates the magnitude of ...

Dubai Airport ist großartig, es ist wirklich mehr ein großes Einkaufscenter als ein Flughafen, das behauptet man zwar von vielen Flughäfen, aber hier ist es wirklich so. Wir sind überpünktlich mit der Emirates Maschine aus Hamburg gelandet und wurden nach einer langen Busfahrt sowie einem kurzen Security Check-In sofort von Emirates Info-Tafeln darauf hingewiesen ...

... population and some others who make up the strict muslim group. Dubai is an awesome city, one in which most people will want to see at one point or another. Whether it is 100 years from now to see the ruins of the once popular middle eastern empire, or in 100 years when it is the capital of the world. Dubai has a bright future, either as a tourist spot similar to Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, or as a New York city, fully operational large economic city.

... this same period we had been planning to buy a property in Dubai so we could get settled and start a family. Unfortunately the property market in Dubai had other plans for us as property prices were increasing daily with the apparent supply and demand problems, and by the time we had saved enough for a down payment the property we had our eye one was already out of our price bracket ...

... to go. I asked the driver if we went left or right and he pointed up. I was feeling very frustrated at the lack of friendliness and communication problem.








The bus cost 5d for both of us - $1.80. We wandered down a side street, asked a few people for directions and eventually found it. Admission fee was 3d each ...