Sharjah Grand Hotel -Sharjah

DUBAI! Like Vegas, only WAY more expensive.<br>The cheapest hotel within 5 miles of the Dubai Airport? $550 a night! The minibar might as well be a safe. The airport terminal is like a gleeming, brilliantly lit movie set. Dubai is home of the world's best hotel, the Barq el Arab, the only 5 star hotel anywhere. Brunch is $150, plus drinks, even alchohol! I managed to crash ...

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... t a nice expereince. Although you know that you have nothing illegal on you you start to worry anyway. Like what if someone hid something in your bag etc. They wouldn't care, it would be straight to prison for a long long time. <br><br>In the end we only stayed one night as our minds were set on getting home and starting to build our life again. Maybe we will come back to Dubai on holdiay in the future when we look respectable.

Oasis? My summer started in Dubai-pretty much the exact opposite of Tanzania, but a nice way to ease back into the traveling lifestyle. I managed to finagle a four-day stopover to check out what Mariam, one of my best friends from Georgetown, has been up to for the last year. I was also really excited to see what Dubai's global buzz was all about Well, my first impression was that this had to be the most infernally hot place on Earth. Surely no human life could survive ...

... for lunch I have to admit I was not all that impressed. I guess I was all psyched for Middle Eastern food and although I didn't know at the time. After lunch we made the 1 hour drive heading back to Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi had a much different look and feel that Dubai. Abu Dhabi is not as built up as Dubai and seems a bit more contained. The city is a mix of very old low building and beautiful high rises. Richard had originally stayed at the Sheraton Khalidiya ...

... and we have separated from the driveway. They are now far from the airport so I called them about this delay. (My son usually stands at the balcony of my apartment during my air travels to see the plane carrying me flies away so I had to inform him about the delay). Banglalink (The company I work for) has a customer care desk at Zia Airport, so we got good cooperation from the in charge of the desk during check-in and lounge transfer. We waited at the Business ...

... and Red sauce day! &#61514; Egie dropped by for some dinner. January 3, 2007 Thursday Darth and I went to Catcat's flat at Sharjah. Catcat's place was great --- spacious, cozy, and well-maintained. Her kitchen appliances are to die for... but still, nothing is better than damas, as far as I've seen. We had coffee at caribou, located in a nearby building. I had Chai Tea Latte, and it was the best Chai I had ever tasted! &#61514; The interiors of the coffee shop was ...

I am on The Palm Jumeirah better known as the 8th wonder of the world and it really is fantastic, secluded beach, swimming pools and oh my gosh the apartment i am in is stunning....would definately recommend the company for anyone travelling in Dubai, called VH Dubai...i met up with a few people travelling in Dubai as well from a local website and because there are so ...

... This led to much frustration and many sleepless nights pondering over what to do and if it would be worth spending a fortune on a tiny property. So while walking down to the creek, after being inspired by the Thirsty Traveler I turned to Inge-Marie and said 'why dont we just forget about buying property in Dubai and pack our bags and go traveling for 3 months?' Inge-Marie was silent for a while ...

... Not only did we see living specimens but were lucky enough to recover a long dead specimen from the bottom of a sinkhole. On further expeditions up the mountain we felt confident that we could differentiate between Tahr dung and that of the domestic goats which roamed the area. We planned to use this as a marker as means to determining numbers of Tahr. This idea was poo pooed (I think an appropriate choice of phrase) by some who peer reviewed our paper. These past few days are the ...