Category Archives: Dubai

مع السّلامة : Saying’goodbye’ to Dubai

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I’ve been blogging about Dubai for over a month now and today will be my last post on the city.

As we went around, I tried to remember how things were so that I could describe the changes to M.

In 20 years time, it may be harder to see the evolution. So M. decided to preserve a few shots of Dubai in 2010 to make the comparison easier!

Dubai’s ‘Clock Tower roundabout’, one of the oldest landmarks in the city. (©MRandin)

The Burj Al Arab (©MRandin)

The Burj Al Arab (©MRandin)

An abra on the Dubai creek. Please be there in 20 years time! (©MRandin)

The driveway leading up the Zabeel Palace is lined with peacocks who are happy to strut their stuff for the tourists! (©MRandin)

This is The Chick, saying Ma’as salaama to you all! (Well, at least until tomorrow…)

And then there was some monkey business to take care of…

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Dubai’s been ‘Grasshaffed’! (©MRandin)

M. and I decided we needed a travel companion who would fit the following requirements:

Number 1:     S/he would be seen and not heard;

Number 2:     S/he would remind us of ‘home’;

Number 3:     S/he wouldn’t mind bottoms of small backpacks.

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I’ve never climbed a tree…

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(© MRandin)

I’ve seen camels eat out of the garbage. I’ve slid down a sand dune on a shopping bag. I’ve sprayed fake snow on a plastic tree at Christmas. I’ve seen Santa ride into town on a camel. I’ve ice skated in 50 degree weather. I’ve spent the night in the desert. And I’ve seen a Bedouin.

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The “peach boy” at the Souk Al Bahar

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Momotaro came to earth inside a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it. The child explained that he had been sent by Heaven to be their son. The couple named him Momotaro, “Peach Boy”.

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Now that Dubai has a “downtown” area…

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…what’s there to do?

You can swim with the sharks or ice skate… at the Dubai Mall

When you’ve got such a high concentration of shopping malls in one country it’s good for business to do something “different” to attract the crowds.

Cue giant aquarium at the Dubai Mall.

(©MRandin)

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Would you spend a night at the Burj Al Arab?

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The Burj Al Arab (©MRandin)

Want an honest description of the Burj Al Arab? How about this one by Sam Wollaston of The Guardian who described it as “fabulous, hideous, and the very pinnacle of tackiness – like Vegas after a serious, no-expense-spared, sheik-over.” Continue reading →