Dubai contrasts

Trip Start Apr 27, 2008
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Trip End May 24, 2008


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Flag of United Arab Emirates  , Dubai,
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

We have  made it to Dubai, a long flight but emirates is a great airline. The anti jetlag tabs worked well and even after flying for 20 hours and getting little sleep on the plane - we managed to hit the Dubai malls without any sleep.

Our room at the Dubal Hotel we planned to stay at had som e sort of fault so we were transfered to another Hotel in the group. We ended up in a 5 star apartment Hotel with a 2 bedroom amazing apartment.


Dubai is amazing. Temp is around 38 deg. The swiming pool is fabulous. It's a concrete jungle with money everywhere. We went to a supermarket yesterday to buy some lunch. It was surprisingly cheap especially cheese ??? Food variety was amazing including the pickles and spices.
apartment interior at Flora Park hotel
apartment interior at Flora Park hotel
The size of the shopping complexes is a  bit overwhelming. Copied shops are everywhere. Building projects are everywhere.  It must be a consulting engineers dream place. Engineering technology is being stretched. We went over a floating bridge yesterday that rises and falls with the tide.  

We are going to have a look at the gold and silver souks[markets] today and the electronics street in the old part of Dubai.Tomorrow off to Istanbul and back to the airport which is like nothing we have ever seen. It is huge!

Now some photos???
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sueandsam
sueandsam on May 1, 2008 at 08:28AM

hey
sounds like you are having fun. keep posting lots of photos. and don't worry things here are fine. but we have a few stories for you when you get back.

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