Immediately after completing the beach route, we switched buses and started the downtown loop. This one was much shorter than the beach route and included a Dubai Creek dhow cruise. Since we had spent time on the Bur Dubai side of the creek the weekend before, we stayed on the bus for that side of the Creek and then hopped off the bus on the Deira side. We spent some time in the famous Gold Souk, but unfortunately many of the shops were closed because of the Eid holiday. We walked in some that were open and my wish to buy a gold bangle was crushed because even the most basic of basic bangle was nearly $1,000!
We wondered around the Old Souk on the Bur Duabi side until it was time for the evening dhow cruise. The dhow cruise was nice, but slightly over overshadowed by the crazy children on the boat. There were several kids running all over the place, but the best was that they would sit wherever they like...including on you if you were in their way!
Our hope was the the bus tour would give us many ideas for things to do in the upcoming weekends in Dubai. Unfortunately we had not realized how many things we had already done!
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| Me in front of the famous Burj Al Arab, the world's only 7 star hotel. |
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| These building were apparently iconic before the sail hotel and the tallest building in the world were built. At the time they were built, they were the tallest twin buildings. |
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| The entrance to the Gold Souk in Dubai. Too bad there is nothing in my price range! |
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| One of the many gold shops. You need sunglass to even walk down the street! |
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| This was the Dhow boat we thought we were taking a cruise on. It ended up being a different one, but this one is very similar. |
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