There are three main reasons to visit the UAE in December, especially if your itinerary includes Dubai. The first one should be obvious to all. Due to its climate, visiting this lovely city in any other time would be purposefully subjecting oneself to more sunshine and higher temperatures than necessary. Even in December I “enjoyed” […]
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While I was already blown away by the quality of the museums in Abu Dhabi, I was shocked by what I found in Dubai, since the latter is possibly the proud owner of the best museum scene in the UAE so far, at least until Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island is fully built up. Without a
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I was born in 1996. I grew up watching documentaries on “giant construction projects” and Dubai was where half of such projects were taking place when I was just a student in primary and then secondary school. Normally, when I visit a new country, the most recently built thing I plan to see would be
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There are two sides to Dubai, the flashy one that you are familiar with from Instagram, and another that is significantly more laid back, culture oriented, and dare I say, interesting. Well, what else did you expect me to say? That the admittedly wonderful looking skyscrapers full of luxury shops is more interesting than a
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Emiratis love eating well. This was the very first realization I had shortly after I arrived at Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates’ capital is a massive city, and while I acknowledge the fact that the two days that I spent there are nowhere near enough to have an educated opinion on the entire food scene
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Abu Dhabi is by far the richest of the Emirates of the UAE, it is also the one that seems to care the most to incentivize more culture-oriented travellers to visit it, building one excellent museum after another. I suppose having more money to spend around plays a big role in all of this, but
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I started my trip of the UAE after landing at Zayed International Airport, in Abu Dhabi. However, due to my itinerary, I only had two full days to explore Abu Dhabi, and a significant amount of that time was spent on visiting its museums. That left me with a very humble amount of time to
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The United Arab Emirates is not a particularly big country. Moreover, it is one of the leading producers of hydrocarbons and thus fuel is quite cheap in the market. This means that transportation, public or private, is hardly a concern for those that are visiting the country. However, this also means that it is not
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Dubai is not a country, but also, it kind of is. Confused? You should not be. While this is most unusual for the Wondering Voyager, for the United Arab Emirates, I wanted to do an exception and try my best at writing a primer of sorts that cover the country’s recent history, and a few
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