Photos: Dates, friendly waiter, homemade pita bread, vegetable plate, stuffed vine leaves, hummus and falafel. Usually, food plays a big part in our vacation planning. It is so important to our enjoyment that there are countries we no longer visit because we just don’t care for the local cuisine. When considering the UAE, our focus […]
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Exploring Old Dubai
Photos are of Gold Souk, Spice Souk, Dubai Creek, and city wall. The day after we returned from our desert camping trip in Abu Dhabi, we hitched a ride with our friend, who was travelling to another Emirate on business, and spent a couple of days in Dubai. Most of what I had read about Dubai focused on […]
Photo of the Week: Camping in the Liwa Desert, UAE
Moreeb jun dune: For the Chinese New Year break, we decided to visit good friends from Hong Kong, who had moved to United Arab Emirates at the same time we moved to Beijing. We took an Etihad night flight to Abu Dhabi, arriving in the capital city at 6:40 am. As we landed, we remarked […]