Crowne Plaza Bahrain

... still more time to kill, we walked through the Manama's government center's cluster of ministry buildings and made our way to the Crowne Plaza for a drink and an attempt to resist the pull of jet-lag sleep. Dodging the famously fatal traffic, we walked ...

... Bahrain, and the taxi drivers are a little aggressive; they're asking for pretty ridiculous rates (I was planning on cabbing it to the Crowne Plaza I was meeting my uncle, and storing my bag there for the day). I decide to skip the cabs; the airport is ...

... and forth to organize in a week, eight of us decided to help celebrate and make it a bit of party weekend in Bahrain. Flights Booked (Check)... Hotel Booked (Check).... Work finished for the week (Check)... Thursday night and we were packed and ready ...

... Bahrain airport after a 9 hour flight from Frankfurt. I got a rental car for the month and headed out on to the streets of Bahrain. The drivers in this city are insane (terrible). My hotel was only a few minutes from the hotel luckily. Later I would find ...

Business Meeting at Bahrain with HR Manager Ameer ...

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 ...

So I woke up at 7am to get to breakfast at 7:30 (free in our hotel). I met up with a couple of the guys who were staying at my hotel. We had lunch then hopped in our cars to head to work. We went to a wearhouse outside of base that we rent to keep our ...

Here are the pictures so far... internet is too slow here to upload it onto travelpod.... so browse them on this website: ...

The next day I went down to the local civilian boat place to rent a barge to set up all of our underwater equipment. look how shitty it looks: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm291/petepaccione/IMG_0189.jpg shitty2 (guy im with on the right): ...

... ) which was basically one big shopping area.   Then we hit some of the middle eastern countries: Palestine, Jordan, Bahrain, Afghanistan, etc. Heading over to Israel's pavilion we expected a good exhibit, after waiting in line we were led to a ...