Lacinda
Picture time! Here are a few shots of our hotel - the Arabian Courtyard, which is in Bur Dubai, an older neighborhood, directly across from the Dubai Museum and a few blocks from Dubai Creek. The other side of the creek is Deira which hosts the main "Souks" or markets, which are more old school and middle eastern in nature than the glittery new malls in the rest of Dubai. They have a souk for various types of goods - spices, fabric & textiles, gold, perfume, and a large covered one that we haven't checked out yet that I presume sells consumer goods and local handicrafts. I hope to go there tomorrow, as heaven knows I need to buy some STUFF and I can't afford the gold souk. Trust me, you'll see what I mean....
Dubai Creek is a hub for shipping both materials, and humans, up and down and across, connecting the neighborhoods. Lots of boats from very fancy glass-sided dinner tour boats, to more traditional arabian dhows that ship freight, to 'water taxis' consisting of no more than a shabby wood boat with a cheap outboard motor, which you can hop on for 1 dirham, which is about 33 cents. Its a quick easy way across the creek, and the locals use it all day long, as well as brave tourists - like us, of course. ;)
Picture time! Here are a few shots of our hotel - the Arabian Courtyard, which is in Bur Dubai, an older neighborhood, directly across from the Dubai Museum and a few blocks from Dubai Creek. The other side of the creek is Deira which hosts the main "Souks" or markets, which are more old school and middle eastern in nature than the glittery new malls in the rest of Dubai. They have a souk for various types of goods - spices, fabric & textiles, gold, perfume, and a large covered one that we haven't checked out yet that I presume sells consumer goods and local handicrafts. I hope to go there tomorrow, as heaven knows I need to buy some STUFF and I can't afford the gold souk. Trust me, you'll see what I mean....
Dubai Creek is a hub for shipping both materials, and humans, up and down and across, connecting the neighborhoods. Lots of boats from very fancy glass-sided dinner tour boats, to more traditional arabian dhows that ship freight, to 'water taxis' consisting of no more than a shabby wood boat with a cheap outboard motor, which you can hop on for 1 dirham, which is about 33 cents. Its a quick easy way across the creek, and the locals use it all day long, as well as brave tourists - like us, of course. ;)
Dubai Creek skyline - they have pics of sheiks plastered on everything here
We can't tell if these are freight boats or tourist boats, but they light up at night
Old school transportation via "water taxi" - we rode on these
New school transportation :)
I just liked this apartment's cool balconies
A view of the side docks and all the waiting water taxis...
Dubai creek
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