Introduction
My wife and I took a two week trip in December 2006 to visit the UAE (United Arab Emirates), and Oman.
My wife and I took a two week trip in December 2006 to visit the UAE (United Arab Emirates), and Oman.
We booked our tickets relatively late, and as such, didn’t have much luck finding reasonable fares online. We ended up using a discount Asian travel agent/consolidator called Dada Tours, based in Los Angeles. The San Francisco to Dubai route is often used by Pakastanis trying to get home. The travel agent beat any price I was able to get online by $500, and the tickets were delivered to our door exactly as promised. We flew Virgin Atlantic to London (excellent flight, great in flight entertainment with over 50 movies on demand (i.e. That can be paused)). Emirates Airline took us the rest of the way to Dubai, although we didn’t finally reach Dubai until 1:30 AM, an hour later than expected .
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The next morning we headed out to explore Deira. We started out wandering through the electronics market. Nothing very exciting - prices were similar to or worse than what we can get in the US.
It wasn’t long before we moved on to the Gold Market. There are more than (more...)
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We only had one evening in Abu Dhabi, so we headed out to find some food.
There were 2 restaurants nearby that both sounded good. The first, a Chinese place called Royal Orchid, turned out to be closed, but looked quite good. Our second choice, just a little further up As Salem St., was an Indian restaurant called India Palace. The ambience was great, although the food was only average. They had lots of great vegetarian choices for Wendy, though.
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The next morning, we started our safari with Arabian Adventures. The first tour we took, A Day in the Dunes (http://www.arabian-adventures.com/ToursSafaris/AbuDhabi/Safaris/DayDunes/DayDunes.Asp?nav=2⊂=2)
, started at 9am, allowing us to enjoy a wonderful buffet breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant (included in the price of the room).
We were the only ones in the vehicle, and I believe this is fairly typical, as there aren’t many tours running out (more...)