Last day in Dubai: 27.05.2010

After our desert safari the night before, we both slept until 9.30am!  We were planning to indulge ourselves with a hotel breakfast for the last day of our holiday, but this became lunch.


Chicken and grape salad.  Can you imagine cutting uniformly sized slices of grape!


Then we went to Souk Madinat Jumeirah, a very upmarket, modern souk.  While (very recently) built in the traditional Arabian style architecture, with the traditional breeze-directing towers (probably for show only), the “souks” contained only the highest quality (and priced) Arabian style goods, plus international brand names.  However, they were beautifully set out and fun for window shopping.

  A sea-water canal had been constructed through the complex, and we took a 25 minute abra ride around the canal.


The canal wound its way through some luxurious villas.  A couple of entire villas are owned and used by the royal family.  Others are rented out per room to rich tourists, who obviously don’t mind the riff raff like us riding around in abras gawping at them.


The Souk Madinat Jumeirah is next door to Burj Al Abra, the world famous 7 star, sail shaped hotel which is the symbol of Dubai, so glimpses of it could be seen through the palm trees, shining in the afternoon sun.


In love with the Burj Al Abra by now, I dragged Pat along to the public Jumeirah Beach next door to take some more pictures.


As night fell, the lights came on.  I will spare you all the different combinations of coloured lights I captured.


The Jumeirah Beach Hotel was also sparkling by now….



…..and also a nearby mosque under the full moon.  How lucky we have been to visit Dubai!