Photos from Dubai in September

I realised I hadn't had a chance to put these up yet! We really enjoyed it, Dubai was a fascinating place. Stinking hot though - 115F (45C) and about 90% humidity!

So here we go:

This is on Dubai Creek - it's a man made body of water that goes out to the ocean, small boats come and go trading goods, and there's also a heap of tourist boats.



Water taxi



There was souks everywhere (souk = market), this was the famous Gold Souk, just a standard shop window!



This is at the spice souk



And at the fabric souk



A shopping centre called Wafi - it had designer shops, and an upmarket "traditional" souk area - the place was deserted due to Ramadan, and most of the shops weren't opening the entire month.



Dubai is a construction zone! There was cranes EVERYWHERE



The new Metro system they are building which will make a huge difference to traffic - you can see Burj Dubai in the background which will be the world's tallest building



In front of the sails - Burj Al Arab



Ski Dubai - so odd!



One of the gorgeous mosques



A mosque that was near us - this was during iftar - breaking of the days' fast



So there you go!

Wow, it looks amazing! And all that gold! as well as the spices. I love the boats, awesome!

These are fantastic!

Dubai looks and sounds like a fascinating place to visit. I've seen a couple of programs about the architecture there, and I would love to go see it in real life. Plus going somewhere with a completely different culture would be a really interesting (and challenging) experience.

I saw a program on TLC or Discovery about the Ski Dubai building. Quite the engineering feat.

Did you take your kitty there?

Awesome pictures!!

Great pictures, Sarah!

Wow! They are awesome! I love the ones with the markets, it's fascinating to see how they live...and the skiing place? That's cool!

Nice pics! Love the one with the cranes. It looks so clean!

Great pics, thanks for sharing!! I've heard of that ski place- indoor snow skiing, weird!

I hope they groom the slopes better than the indoor sky/sledding place in Cairo. It was a sheet of ice. I took one look at it and was like no way in heck are we going skiing here. We took one run down it in a sled and crashed into the wall at the bottom at a high speed. Yeah, that's what happens when you sled on ice