Monday dawned gloriously clear with bright, blue skies for our tour of ancient Dubai. We started the tour with a little side trip to the beautiful Dubai Creek Golf Club where they hold the Dubai Open. It is such a pretty spot. If I were to "combine sand and salt water" I'm not sure what I would get, but it certainly wouldn't be the fabulous oases that Dubai comes up with!
Dubai Creek at dawn from our hotel, taken by Barbara Cook
The lovely Dubai Creek Golf Club
Reflections at Dubai Creek
Older skyline of Dubai Deira
The Bastakiya area has buildings from the 19th Century, built by the Iranians to further trade.
Dubai Museum
Dubai Museum
Riding the abra across Dubai Creek - a 'must' for every Dubai visitor!
Dubai Creek
One of the hundreds of stalls in the Spice Market
The Gold Souk
Gold gold gold!
Street scenes (with telephoto!)
Contrasting modes of transportation!
Jim, Don, Pat, and Donna at our welcome reception
Andrew takes good care of grandma Ruth and great Aunt LaVerne.
From Dubai we sailed overnight through the Strait of Hormuz(!) to the Indian Ocean side of the Arabian Peninsula. At 9:00am we docked in Fujairah, another Emirate. Much of the Emirates oil is piped to Fujairah, to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, so over 50% of all Emirate Oil is shipped from the port of Fujairah. The city doesn't offer nearly what Dubai or some of the others do, but it's interesting to walk around a bit.
Vegetable market in Fujairah
Oh No! "The Return of the Lettuce Ladies!"
Modern apartment building in Fujairah
The Falcon Roundabout
Several of us had lunch in Al Meshwar Restaurant. Delicious!
Babs found a couple men smoking their waterpipes who allowed her to pose with them!
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