Gulf Pearl Hotel

... a great time dancing with them rather than being mauled by drunken Arabs. All was good. We caught taxis back to the Gulf Pearl Hotel, Half the guys went straight to bed, as they were knackered from a combination of booze and dance. The sturdy ones went ...

... , we were off. The taxi was REALLY nice - it must have been brand new. After a short drive, we made it to the Gulf Pearl Hotel. Can I just say that Dubai is AMAZING!! It looks like such a cool city! It is still foreign, with plenty of people who speak and ...

... every sidewalk. They were pink, so they must have been cooked, and they were just lying there. Everywhere. After we checked into the hotel and explored our room, we went back out to have a look around. Most of the time we walked in the middle of the dirt ...

... had a shower the water was salty, the taps were all producing salty water which was different. With a walking distance from the Fursan hotel to the local beach, it was a lovely time. Early morning personally are the best time to go to the beach, its ...

Well today we were out of bed at 5.30am to get ready for our bus trip to Pearl Harbour - the buses leave early because there can be five or six thousand people visit each day and there is no pre sale of entry tickets. These early starts have been pretty ...

... season rambutans, including an unusual red fruit which turns out to be an upmarket rambutan . We walk back over the Pearl's Hill City Park to the hotel, and have an afternoon swim. After a long PM sleep (Dianne has come to the conclusion that the aches ...

... began their modern careers in the 1800's.  The nomadic Bedouin Al Maktoum family strolled into, what was then, a little Arabian Gulf fishing and pearl diving village in the 1850's and set up camp.  They liked it, decided to stay, and installed ...

... days exactly, as that is how often the junks unload & reload their passengers. I am spending 2 nights aboard the "Dragon's Pearl", a hand-crafted, wooden Chinese sailing junk, and I can't wait to climb aboard!  I may no longer have as much ...

... famous. Gems include diamonds, lapis lazuli, Indian star rubies, star sapphires, moonstones and aquamarines. Hyderabad is a leading pearl center. The range of handicrafts and leatherwork includes bronzes, brasswork (often inlaid with silver), canework and ...

... recommended specialty of the place, but in our curtained-off family cell, I'm not sure that we had it. Not recommended. Back at the hotel, we confirmed that our luggage had not arrived - JFK seems to have sent it the day after we left - so we collapsed ...

... bungalow developments well back from the beach. When we do get to the beach, it is at quite a nice spot, with a small hotel, sandy beach and limestone cliffs. The wind on this side of the peninsular is blowing offshore, and the water looks quite ...

... producing leather goods, pottery, finely engraved brass trays and delicate wooden boxes made from sandal wood and encrusted with mother of pearl.   While the Bazaar is a magnet for visitors it is a thriving working market and an integral part of ...

... mixture of French and Asian Cuisine - it was like we had stepped back in time. They call this place the Pearl of the Orient.   We spent hours walking and bicycling around this town and the surrounding villages.  Buddhism is the ...

... of its people's lives. Songs were composed to accompany different tasks, from hauling water at the well, to diving for pearl-oysters out in the Gulf. In the latter case, a professional song-leader was kept on the pearling dhows whose job it was to rally ...

... foreign tradesmen (chiefly Indians), who settled in the town. Until the 1930s, the settlement was known for its pearl exports. After the devaluation of the Gulf Rupee in 1966, Dubai joined the newly independent state of Qatar to set up a new monetary ...

... have nearly 50,000 worshippers from its prayer halls and courtyard.          Emirates Palace Hotel  Located on the Arabian Gulf in the city of Abu Dhabi is the Grand Emirates Palace Hotel. And a Grand place it is, costing ...

... on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubai is the second largest Emirate after Abu Dhabi and is usually recognised as the 'Pearl of the Persian Gulf'.  Dubai's population is estimated at 1.5 million, a huge difference from 183,200 in 1975. Dubai is ...