Royal Palace Hotel Apartments Ajman

Usually, one would go to bed early after having packed his luggage considering that one has planned a 24 hour trip to Africa the next day.

Well, I started my African experience in a slightly different way – I went out until 3 in the morning, just having 3-4 beers and surprisingly woke up the next morning with one of the worst hangovers of my entire life and my luggage still unpacked.

I managed ...

They said there was no boat.
They said it couldn't be done.
They said I was wasting my time.

They were right. Sort of.

I wanted to fly as little as possible on my trip, and having meekly by passed Saudi Arabia by plane (Visa issues again) I was determined to get a boat to India. There was a boat- I was sure. Dubai has three ports, the Jebel Ali being the largest man-made port in the world. One chap I met had a ...

Next flight was from Sydney to Dubai, it was all pretty uneventful but I had trouble sleeping on the plane. Flying into dubai was awesome, the place is a huge desert with all these crazy high skyscrapers and cranes everywhere.  I really regret not having a ...

... no sleep Dubai airport is still as busy and intimidating as I remembered it just a few hours before. I feel like I walk for a zillion miles in the most massivist (I know its not a real word but I like it!) airport ever but I make it thro all the various X-ray machines and arrive at the departure point tired and dehydrated. Finally I get on to more emirates freebies and we're on our way to Singapore. We only stop to refuel so its 45 mins to go to a fairly decent loo and stretch ...

... delivered 3 weeks after moving in and we now don't have to sit on patio furniture like white trash :) Some before, during and after shots can show you the development of our lovely apartment.

... with all the trappings. Wild Wati is was interesting it is a extremely small water park by US comparison but since Dubai is much more established tha Abu Dhabi, things are much more crammed and an after thought compared with it's neighbor. After a couple of hours of touring the parking and listening to the management talk about various aspects of the park it was almost lunch time. Richard and I stopped at he Noodle House one of the Top 10 restaurants in ...

... 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 noticed shopkeepers allowing tourists to drink, so it wasn't too much of a problem but not something which I would want to do too often...certainly not in that heat anyway! The building itself is very impressive, so sat ...

... a week. Downstairs in the lounge there was a HUGE screened TV and an xbox 360. Once I reached my dorm I met my new roommate, kind of. He was asleep, so I quietly put my gear down and decided to follow suit and take a nap, since i barely slept on the flight in. With no pillows, blankets, or sheets I passed out for about an hour with only a backpack as a substitute for a pillow. Afterwards, I walked the campus a little and then tried to get on the Internet, no service in my ...

... Mumbai docked here to load and unload cargo. They aren't that big and don’t look seaworthy for such long journeys. We first walked through the Spice Souq which smelled great with big sacks filled with spices, nuts and dried fruit. Next we walked through the Gold Souq, lots of little jewellery shops. We wandered down little side streets and ...

... plenty of Arabs in white robes and red checked cloths on their heads and women in black with their faces covered.







We arrived in Dubai at 9.30pm local time (12.30am Thai time). Dubai has a massive beautiful airport but it took us an hour to ...