Welcome to notes from the field. below is my travel itinerary for those of you who are interested. I will be departing Washington on Sunday the 9th and arriving in Dubai late in the evening on the 10th.I will be then departing Dubai bound for Bahrain on the 17th and arrive in Manama early the 18th. After returning from my embark i will be leaving the Gulf region the morning of the 20th and arriving in Washington late that evening. if any of you know any places to see in dubai or doha, please go ahead and post them in the comments field.
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Hopefully by now you have landed in Dubai and are traveling and seeing friends. Enjoy the trip! : )
Dubai has morphed into a surreal, futuristic metropolis in the last two decades and is roaring full speed ahead into the next, striving to make everything a superlative. In order to experience anything remotely Arabic, you have to get out of the city and into the desert or go to one of the other Emirates (but not Abu Dhabi). Personally, I found Dubai to be a great disappointment. I had last been there in 1987 and loved it--Arabic atmosphere, haggling in the market, great Arabic food....Now, however, I feel that it is just another homogenized city with no culture.
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