Moving from the Bay Area to Abu Dhabi was a shock to the system. However, Abu Dhabi is completely tame compared to the Dubai, the Wild West of the 21st century. In Dubai, the buildings are taller, the traffic is worse, and brunch doesn't start until 6pm. We couldn't very well let our prized guests from Sweden, Katie and Nik, leave without a visit to this...place. Here are they are, in stunned (and befitting) tourist mode.
After a trip to the Dubai Mall (biggest in the world, of course), we took the Dubai Metro (biggest or most something, probably) to the Dubai Creek, home of the gold, spice, utensil, and textile souqs. We found amazing jewels, including this very large bracelet.
The spice souq is on the Deira side; we rode an abra to cross Dubai Creek to get to the Bur side of the creek, where we stumbled into the Dubai Museum, which we had looked for but never found.
There were interesting exhibits of old boats...
...luxury desert housing....
...and signs we weren't sure made sense at a museum.
It was a surprisingly large museum, and we ended up breezing through the last few exhibits. But we'll be back. Once we made it out, it was time to grab dinner at Potbelly's (!) and retrieve our car at the mall, which doubtless is also the most crowded in the world.
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