DUBAI

It all started with this. once  Ramesh saw video of Burj Al Arab, and showed the luxury 7 star hotel and told me the hotel costs 1Lac per day, and people should be really lucky to spend a day here..

At that moment i just saw video and ignored it. His birthday was coming up in 3 weeks, i wanted to do something special for this 35th birthday and was thinking of plans to give him a surprise birthday at some Exotic place... 

I Then remembered, how much he enjoyed just watching the video of Burj Al Arab. I decided 1Lac is nothing when compared to happiness of my Love...

 I wanted to keep it totally surprise, but ended up telling him as i needed help in Currency conversion, Visa, Booking Air tickets, Hotel and other activities in Dubai..

 First he was reluctant saying 1Lac for hotel stay, that too  for one day is too costly . I convinced him saying, Its ok, complete Dubai trip will a "Gift holiday" for his 35th Birthday .. .

 DAY 0 DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

DAY 1 DUBAI - BURJ AL ARAB SUITE

DAY 1 DUBAI - BURJ AL ARAB HOTEL

DAY 1 - DUBAI - WILD WADI WATER PARK

DAY 1 DUBAI - RAMESH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

DAY 2 DUBAI - BURJ KHALIFA

DAY 3 DUBAI - DESERT SAFARI

DAY 4 DUBAI - BIG BUS TOUR


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DAY 4 - DUBAI

7. Drive through s from Big bus

We had booked Big bus tour for our last day in Dubai.. Big bus offers a Closed AC seatings as well as open roof top seating..

It also offers hop on and hop off , if you want to explore any destination you can stay back explore and hop on next bus.

Big bus runs frequently, as long as you have bus stop and timings

right you can plan your day easily..

1. Starting point (Wafi mall)

Our pick up point was Wafi mall.. We reached 30mins before and grabbed some snacks and water .. And waited for our bus.. Big bus

tour started right on time at 10am...

WAFI MALL BIG BUS PICK UP POINT

We grabbed some food and water in Wafi mall Restaurant 

2. Jumeriah mosque.

The unique thing about this mosque is, it allows even non-muslims.

It was opened in 1979, with concept open doors, open minds program of Sheik Mohammed centre for cultural understanding..

But please be respectful of the culture, and proper attire is mandatory. Burkha for ladies can be borrowed to wear in mosque...

Burkha borrowed to use in Mosque.

We spent 30mins exploring the mosque, it was a nice calm place..

Our next stop was cruise.

3. Arabian dhow cruise

Lunch  cruise and Dinner cruise are good  choice  As it was our last day, we wanted to stick with complete sight seeing tours of Big bus.. So we  went on 1.5hr cruise , with views of Dubai skyline buildings..

Local people travelling from old dubai to new dubai

Dubai creek also has traditional boat  to ferry  passengers up and down the creek to visit Old dubai to New dubai or Souq(Market)..

4. Dubai Museum

Dubai museum is located in Al Fahidi fort.  Museum is good effort to showcase life before discovery of oil in UAE. The galleries recreate historic Arab people's occupations, date farms, desert and marine life. 

5. Old Souk Dubai

This is  old Dubai, Its famous for Souk ie market...  Spice and gold souks are must visit to get authentic dubai experience. 

6. Sheik Seed mouktam house

This historic building is a former residence  of  Sheik Saeed Al Maktoum house, who is former ruler of Dubai.

Drive throughs from Big bus

ATLANTIS THE PALM HOTEL

Palm Jumeirah - 

Island in Dubai

Atlantis Hotel

Tall buildings in Dubai

DUBAI TCS HOUSE

AC Bus stop  

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DAY 3 DUBAI

1. MALL OF EMIRATES, 

2. SKI DUBAI, 

3.DESERT SAFARI

MALL OF EMIRATES

Our first stop of the day was to Mall of Emirates.. This mall is around 20kms.. We decided to use Dubai Metro train.. After using Metro in our Thailand and Delhi trip i have realised Metro is fast and Economical.

Most of malls in Dubai are quite big.. Emirates malls has lot of branded stores.. Good options of restaurants in food court.. 

It also has a indoor Ski resort in this mall.

                                       

Ski Dubai 

Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22500 sq mtr.. Park maintains temperature of -1 to 2 degrees throughout the year.

This was my first experience with Snow/Ice.. Ramesh had lived in usa before, so he had seen snowing in winter....

Once you purchase tickets, you need to pick up jackets, boots, glouse  before entering the snow park..

Hightlights are beautiful ice sculptures, Penquin encounter, Snow rides, Chair Lift, Zorb Ball.. Best thing is you can stand in queue and try rides multiple times...

Ice Sculpture

                 

Best rides.. We had lot of fun...

ZORB BALL

CHAIR LIFT

MOUNTAIN THRILLER

We had booked Desert safari for evening session.. Desert safari is a must experience if you are in Dubai.

We grabbed a sandwich from foodcourt before leaving the emirates mall.

Multiple Travel agents offer Desert safari. You can choose based on the offer... Most of them offer  hotel pick up and drop,  Buffet Lunch/Dinner watching the belly dancing in the desert camp, Camel ride, 30-40mins of Dune bashing in desert.. 

WE choose afternoon 4-8pm session as it scorching

hot in morning times..

Dune bashing best experience of our life

Dune bashing best experience of our life 

It was the most amazing evening of my life.. Dune bashing is an amazing experience.. We sit in suv which rides through the desert, we feel like we are sitting in a roller coaster ride.. 

After the ride we tried camel riding.. Its really scary when camel stands while you are sitting on it... 

At desert Camp we can try Henna, Arabian costumes..And also has some souvenirs items if yuou want to purchase..

The beautiful evening ended with good buffet dinner, watching an amazing belly dance and other performances..

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