Blogs from United Arab Emirates, Middle East - page 160

A prelude to belly dancing Early in the morning, Lee gets me up because the Shakira in Dubai concert is on TV. I’m a huge fan and have gone to two of her concerts, but the Oral Fixation tour is the newest and I was not able to go last time (I was on my sub-internship at the time and was working hard to impress). I love watching her and singing along to her Spanish songs, and of course, I always love her belly dancing. I took up belly dancing after my first Shakira concert, but with classes and rotations, I could not keep it up. It was fun though. I’d like to do it again. Shakira’s moves would prove to be a prelude for the belly dancing we would see later. I had to work ... read more

Just so you know, the phrase “The Great Imitator” has a medical significance that we’ve decided to leave out of this blog. The origin of the phrase is totally unrelated to Dubai, but I wanted to give it this title because Dubai creates a feeling that everything you can find in another part of the world can also be found here. Call it imitation, in a positive light. After all, if nature blessed Dubai with sand and sea, but not snow, what’s so wrong with using some human innovation to make some? Pinoy breakfast in Dubai The bright Dubai sun creeps into our hotel room early in the morning, and our thoughts are on what happened with the Manchester United - Milan UEFA semifinal game last night. It absolutely *sucks* (elegant word, I know) that we ... read more

Leaving Bangkok It is dark when we get up. We leave our room just as the sun rises, and our 17th floor hallway gives us a great view of the orange orb rising over a still sleepy Chao Praya River. We have little time to appreciate it though, so we jump into a cab and make it to Suvarnabhumi Airport with just enough baht (316, to be exact) left over to pay the driver and give him an almost decent tip. The rest of our baht has to be saved for our departure tax. Check-in is wonderfully easy at Cathay Pacific - we are back on our oneworld itinerary and the business class line. Aah, membership does have its privileges. We’ve got a little over two hours to kill at BKK, and a stop at Duty ... read more

There and back again in 12 hrs! Middle East » United Arab Emirates » Al Ain » Jebel Hafeet By YathiApril 13th 2007Yathi A really short trip. Almost dropped it but I hate changing plans especially when it comes to travel so though might as well climb and come back the next day! Met Tejas at Abu dhabi and the pics will tell the rest..... Ever wondered how photography gets in your way of having fun on travel. I reached a point that I am having to conciously tell myself to put my camera inside my pack to really enjoy the moment. I mean it was one the m... read more

It was my first time to visit Dubai by chance, because it was my boyfriend's business trip between 09Apr and 12Apr07 and since I work for an airline, then I bought myself a stand-by air-ticket (Emirates) to go along with him. We stayed at the 5* Crowne Plaza hotel and it's situated at the financial area, on the Sheikh Zayed Road. We managed to visit a few places in Dubai: Jumeirah Beach Park, Mall of Emirates, Ski Dubai, Dubai Museum, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Gold Souk, Old Souk, Dubai Marina, Mercato (Shopping Mall), Deira City Centre (Shopping Mall) etc... The climate wasn't that bad in early April it is still bearable about 20-29 degrees. The main transportation is taxi. We basically took taxi everywhere! Since it is so cheap, it’s only few pounds each time! But ... read more