Fujairah Beach Motel

... And get this...he wouldn't allow his wife to eat or drink and when she looked at the food for purchase menu, he ripped it out of her hands and said something that made her close here eyes and look down for five minutes. She stared hungrily at his food and drink as he burped and slurped it down. What a class act society they have. Between the Germans and this dude I had a full morning and it wasn't even lunchtime!! What a day and I was enjoying it throughly.<br ...

Ajman to Sharjah by minibus, it leaves right in front of the Ajman museum and goes to the Sharjah bus station, very practical for my bus change to the emirate of Fujarah that lies on the east coast of the UAE, so the highway goes across the desert, and ...

Another 2 days weekend, the ONE in this month... you'd think it's a perfect occasion for a big weekend out, but I was absolutely shattered! I needed some sleep. And, I have to admit, not only because of work. The ex-project manager, who had resigned and left just as I arrived, had invited everyone to the Begian Beer Bar on wednesday night... I finished with my good colleague Ivo, belly and brain full of belgian beer, just a few hours before getting up for work with a ...

First Trip to UAE. First impression, hot &amp; humid, modern &amp; civilised, if I can say that. Got through immigration without problems thanks to the Marhaba Service, really not necessary, there was nothing going on at the Airport. Outside hundreds of drivers waiting to pick passengers up, couldn't find mine. Then finally I got a glimpse of his board with the hotel name. Nice ...

... Iranians tried a bit of bullying in and around here so the US started escorting the oil tankers in and out of the area. I can't remember the details of the incident but one of the American warships, USS Stark, got hit by a missile while undertaking these escort duties. But more about her later. Anyway, while the Iranians don't try those sort of games these days they do still like to pretend that they run the joint so whenever a foreign warship sails through there they get ...

... dangerous. Walking on the ground, concrete or else, tat was not under a shade was an equally challenging matter of getting burnt to the third degree or only to the second. I decided to skip the afternoon dive in order to go back to Sharjah. I had lost my company mobile phone, and I could not remember if I had forgotten it in my hotel room or if it might have dropped from the car door... In the end I found the phone in my hotel room in Sharjah, but realized I had ...

... huge couscous pans for dozens of people. There are mattresses and cushions, horrible printed fabrics, and even worse carpets. There were nice carpets too, but this was not the place to look for the reputable Persian workmanship. Across the road again, a strip of 200m of only cellphone shops. There was a ****** mall as well, small and old, so I went in to see locals just hanging out bored. Driving deeper into town to find ...

... every Friday, well how could I pass up a chance to see that? So this morning at 7am, Ben, Kenny, and I embarked on our Fujairan Adventure. We rode in a minibus, through the desert and on the east coast there are mountains which were really sweet. It was flat for miles and miles and all of a sudden mountains arise. It was pretty barren, especially in the mountainous region, it looked like being on the moon or the Agro Crag (for those who watched the show GUTS on Nickelodeon in the 90's ...

Well here I am in sunny Fujairah on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the United Arab Emirates. Don't let the name fool you, though this is an Arabic and mainly Muslim country it is very safe here. Fujairah is a smallish city in the only Emirate of UAE's seven Emirates (like provinces or states) that is on the east coast. (Gulf of Oman) I arrived with my daughter to visit my husband and two other daughters around 3 AM Sunday (31 hrs travel ...

... on unsealed roads. Once there, we attempt to climb to our waterfall, but after looking at the steepness of the cliffs, lack of other people around, lack of a path, burning hot rocks, and not carrying real water, we decide we've been beaten by nature and turn back. On the way back, we see something that looks like another path, and we almost made our way down to the bottom, but again, hot rocks and lack of real water beat us back. Photos 4 & 5 show us at each of our ...