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Dubai and UAE
by
Joe Hallenstein
A few photos of Ahrensburg (Germany), Hamburg Reeperbahn, and then Dubai and the UAE.
Phone camera only so the quality isn't excellent, but just assume everything's a sandy colour :-)
Castle, Ahrensburg
A crystal clear day when I arrived in Deutschlan
d. Beautiful. Didn't last...
Sushi restaurant - foodOnACon
veyerBelt
Luc, this one's for you! Hilarious :-)
Dubai - street in Deira old town
Deira apartment building
Old school alleyway
All greek to me
The old school courtyard
Reception room in the historic house
old storeroom (apparentl
y mostly full of
dates
courtyard in historic house. Room for a
cow and a goat.
Gold souq
one of many little shops with shiny good
ies
bracelets.
..
rings...
choose-you
r-own diamonds..
.
Catering specially to Canadians,
Maltese,
a few other nationalit
ies... and... Wellington
s!
So many exquisite choices that I couldn'
t choose.
gold..
gold close-up..
.
AUD$1000 and AUD$3000 coins?!
Try giving one of these to the bike shop...
Silver by the kg
Nice dresses but no women to buy them
delivery is by trolley
deliveryma
n on trolley :-)
Never seen so many shops called "general trader", each selling...
Dubai creek
Old architectu
re in Deira
crossing the creek from Deira
interestin
g building
abras on the creek
approachin
g Bur Dubai on the opposite
bank
abras (water taxis) everywhere plus big
boat.
tiny scrawny little cat
nice tiles on whatever building that is
shoebox shops, Bur Dubai
Another souq, this time for clothing
Irrigation paradise in the desert
more old buildings in Bur Dubai
Karela, 4.95 Dhs/kg. What?
Local Touri, 6.95 Dhs/kg. What what?
wind tower ventilatio
n (and tourist)
Irrigation ready, Dubai-styl
e
Flowers, palm trees and downtown skyline
downtown skyline again, from the beach
Dubai beach! (one of the 3 public ones)
Houses (I guess) and skyline
beach (no photos allowed),b
ike/joggip
ath
The whopper,Bu
rj Dubai(anot
her 1/3 to go
another house w Hummer (mosque behind)
street art
natural at left, irrigated park at right
Burj-al-Ar
ab hotel in the distance
Sorry for any inconvenie
nce. What?!
Sunset and I'm nearly there!
gated Burj al Arab hotel
Hotel Jumeirah next door
Self portrait :-)
Waiting for a bus. Any bus. No bus
Back in Deira at night
People and cow in the square
Another cow (perhaps), near the square.
Not exactly refrigerat
ed and sterile
bakery
view from hotel at night
yes, it is in fact a flat desert!
Dubai from the highway on the opposite side to the touristy coast.
Lush grass and palms along the highway
buildings
power lines x
sandy
heading towards Hatta
4WD sand dune (didn't try this time!)
After my last visit to Denmark I thought it was safer to keep my...
Town
Getting less sandy, more rocky
some hills start to appear
town
limestone hills next to the h'way
ditto
ditto
passing some roadside trading
Arriving in Hatta (haven't gone uphill yet!)
roadside palms
hatta street
houses in hatta
the Whitehouse (yet another one)
Hatta
Hatta
UAE flag, pics of Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum
Water! And date palm plantation
another reception room in Hatta Heritage
Village
Bedroom perhaps?
Bedroom definitely
Buildings in the Heritage Village
View of Hatta
Hatta and mountains 2
Hatta and mountains 3
Cemetery
Hatta and mountains 4
Hatta and mountains 5
Dryzabone
Still dryzabone
Little town on the road
Overexpose
d pots and carpets
Wow, look at the road sign!
View from atop the shale
Where's the water?
Too slow to shoot the truck of bananas
Another town
Desert again
Looked like another plantation
Look closely for white specs
Sand dunes
more sand
White speck closeup: it's a camel!
It was way cool dude, shame I didn't have a better camera. His...
Zoomed-out shot of Cam and Co.
Off to find Al Khader.
Middle of nowhere, complete with pruned
trees along the centre nature strip. Desert behind the trees, but looking...
Bottom of Jebel Hafeet (Mount Hafeet)
Going up
View on the way up
Chockers with cars
Entrance to the new hotel
Ah, there's the car park -must be toppen
Big shadow
Big earthworks
UAE's 3 Sisters
More big earthworks and big hotel under
construction
I joined the "VIP Pary" er, party?
One 4WD with stereo system
Traditiona
l stereo system
Wish I had some white clothes
View of the plain
The top! Car park and desert plain below
Friendly tourists
Fantastic view
Higher even than the hotel :-)
Looking down the barren rock
views
artistic views
tourist views
Ah, that's me!
The Tshirt confused people
Me and somalian tourist/du
bai worker
Dancing circles in the car park (and
still a traffic jam)
Sun going down. Trees in formation
Sneakily taking photos of the locals
Damn, was that supposed to be a smile?! Too glary.
A bit better.
Playing cards
Going down holding hands
Orange sunset glow
Crazy Arabs driving in the wrong way
10 minutes later he decided to back out again so that we could leave!
Going down
Sunset on the wind road
Near the bottom
Looks like a ski hill, 1160m high
Ski hill and palm trees
Empty highway
Tropical paradise?
Deserted 4-lane (each way) highway
Palm Jumeira - the trunk
Must be apartments
/hotels
Monorail and tunnel to Atlantis
Tiled tunnel
Atlantis
The colour was a marbly pink
and like all things Dubai, it was *big*
Amazing.
Dubai airport
Trees in the airport at 3am
article published 12/14/2008
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looks like you had fun in germany!! hahahaha
lucculluc, December 15, 2008
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