http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Steve n sand/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Steve n sand en-us Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:13:56 BST Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:13:56 BST Survey all finished for May June so finished up last night has been an enjoyable 50 days at sea with everything we set out to do acheived and happy people all round so early this morning I headed to the airport to fly to Cairo via Bahrain good flight all round once in Cairo I proceeded to the customs area to complete Visa etc got a taxi to the hotel I staying in a part of town calle http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/blog-286230.html so got back from 27 days at sea for 2 days in Muskat was able to catchup on a few things spent yesterday checking out Nizwa the fort and the souk then headed into the mountains to visit a small village live is very different in Oman and the history of this place is facinating to many photo's to upload for now but will update the blog again when I return from sea mid june. The Taxi's ju http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Oman/Muscat/blog-277675.html The last couple of days have seen us trawl up more marine life to analyse quite a few technical problems with a bit of gear so have been kept busy with a few more challenging problems the heat and humidy play funny games with electronics. Photos are of samples caught lots of electric rays sardines various tropical fish a few sea eels. The sunsets and sunrises are unlike anything I've eve http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Oman/Musandam-Peninsula/blog-271616.html So have almost been at sea a week completed a number of trawls a huge range of exciting marine life to sample and sort as we get closer to the Yemem boarder more and more unlit fishing boats appear on the radar so far no fishing boats have thrown rocks at us or opened fire on us the closest has been a bunch shaking there fists and screening some arabic at the top of there lungs. The crew http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Oman/Muscat/blog-270218.html Some Photos of things I've seen. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Oman/Muscat/blog-267974.html Had a fantastic couple of days in Dubai visited many places the skidubai centre rocked kind of trippy that it's in the middle of a shopping mall checked out the rest of the City everything is on the largest scale you can imagine an amazing place I could and now have the option to live there being able to Dive or Ski any day of the year is quite appealing did a dunes safari which t http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Oman/Muscat/blog-267940.html Arrived in Dubai 2.30am local time the benifit of being an NZ citizen made it easy to pass thru customs and obtain a 60 Visa for UAE. Slept in today then have just had a look around Dubai off to a local indian place for dinner plenty of ExPats here lots to see and do everything is just on a massive scale. The three star hotel I'm staying in has 6 night clubs attached rooms are big and http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-267066.html Had af fantastic day checking out Singapore so much culture so much to see and do the public transport is fantastic easy to get around. Today after going for a nice refreshing swim in the hotels pool I proceded to head to little india as I got within several streets I started to smell the might fine spicy smells of indian food little india consists of several streets of shops a temple and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-266720.html Had a good flight over with Singapore Airlines had a young scottish couple Dave and Maggie who had just spent 3 weeks in NZ and loved it 10 hour flight plenty of clear skies some good views out the window. a modest 32 degress very humid outside compared to an ice cold 9 degrees when I arrived in chch this morningIt's a busy place with lots going on lots of traffic and as always interest http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Changi/blog-266340.html So have my bags packed said my goodbyes to NZ am of to Christchurch today then to Singapore this evening. See you in 3.5months NZ http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-266060.html