DAY 19 An Arabian experience

Saturday 27th July

We have one day in Dubai and we are going to make the most of it.

The view from our room. Dubai museum in foreground and grand mosque in background. The net is to stop the birds fouling up the ornate stonework on the front f the hotel

In the morning we went to the Dubai Museum 

In a traditional house at the Dubai Museum (it might look like it, but it is boiling in here)

Mucking about among the exhibits at Dubai Museum

The lifelike figures were everywhere, you couldn't tell who was exhibit and who was visitor

And in the afternoon we took a guided city tour (during a sandstorm)

Burj Al Arab -the world’s most luxurious hotel. It is also world’s first seven star hotel. We are not staying here

Madinat Jumeirah Resort -our guide calls it a city within a city

Atlantis Hotel at the end of Palm Island

Burj khalifa - the world's tallest building just over 800m

And now for some shopping malls....

The snowfield (complete with chairlift, ski slope and luge run inside the Mall of the Emirates (560 stores, 259,000 sqm of retail therapy)

A mall near the Burj khalifa

In the car park at Dubai Mall which has a huge aquarium (complete with sharks and 10million litres of water), ice skating rink and over 600 shops. 4 hours in 43 degree heat and no food or water (it is Ramadan month here) it is time to go home.

And so tonight, at 2am we leave Dubai to come home. It has been a fantastic trip, but it is definitely time to come home. I'm not the only one who needs their spout mending!

See you on my next holiday,

Ma'a salama 

LYT