Friday, April 5, 2013

Day 24 UAE Dubai Thursday, 16 November

Sadly our last day of the tour and the last day in Dubai. We made the most of our 'Big Red Bus' tickets. We travelled both the city route and the beach route seeing many amazing buildings. We stopped at the gold souks where I haggled successfully when buying a gold chain. The jewellery available was breathtaking. One of the interesting things we could do with our 'Big Red Bus' ticket was to take a cruise on a traditional dhow along The Creek. This proved a great way to see some of the wonderful development that makes up modern Dubai. On returning to our hotel we had one last look at the night markets before packing for our flight home the next morning. We had a wonderful tour with plenty of adventure. We climbed inside pyramids,temples and ruins and viewed their majesty,ascended the skies in Luxor in a hot air balloon, cruised the Nile river, sailed in a felucca on the Nile, experienced a horse and carriage ride at Edfu, visited Biblical sites and Petra in Jordan, sailed in a traditional Arabian dhow and experienced a magical night at a Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert in Dubai. This definitely was a bucket list trip that exceeded expectations.