Dubai truly is a land of superlatives and, coming off of 5 months of living in small town Malawi, that suited me just fine. In fact, it was a news story on the Emirate's newest superlative that finally lit the fire under my butt to write about my holiday excursion there.
A friend from grad school and I decided at the last minute instead of making Dubai a layover on our way to some less-developed, more-expensive-to-fly-to locale, to make it the actual vacation (well, part of it; the other half will be described in another post). This left us less than a month to plan for a city neither of us knew much about or had ever given much thought to. Also, since we are both living in Africa, it's not like we could exactly hop on over to the local bookstore and peruse one of the multiple shiny guidebooks probably on offer back in the States.
Despite these restrictions, we threw together what turned out to be a pretty enjoyable 4-day trip; one which wouldn't even have been that expensive if I could have stopped buying things.....
Our itinerary:
A friend from grad school and I decided at the last minute instead of making Dubai a layover on our way to some less-developed, more-expensive-to-fly-to locale, to make it the actual vacation (well, part of it; the other half will be described in another post). This left us less than a month to plan for a city neither of us knew much about or had ever given much thought to. Also, since we are both living in Africa, it's not like we could exactly hop on over to the local bookstore and peruse one of the multiple shiny guidebooks probably on offer back in the States.
Despite these restrictions, we threw together what turned out to be a pretty enjoyable 4-day trip; one which wouldn't even have been that expensive if I could have stopped buying things.....
Our itinerary:
- Thursday: arrive in afternoon, check in and go see the Dubai Festival City Mall Light & Water Show
- Friday: be embarrassingly touristy by taking a Big Bus "Hop-On-Hop-Off" tour around the old part of the city, followed by the splurge of a Nicki Minaj concert
- Saturday: take the second leg of the Big Bus tour to see all the audacious hotels and skyscrapers and check out some of the malls
- Sunday: hit the Gold Souk, visit the Jumeirah public beach, gawk at the marina, see the Ibn Battuta Mall, celebrate NYE
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