1. Do not shop for western wear in the last minute when you are going abroad for work. You will end up buying horrible blue blazers from the last of Arrow’s stocks.
2. If you have lots of oil money, you don’t bother going to New York and Paris to shop. You just bring all the shops into your city and construct millions of malls. When you don’t have lots of oil money (eg. Me), cut up your credit cards before you hit danger levels.
3. The desert safari is must-do. I cannot think of another place where you get so much desert, get so many 4-wheel drives to take you on a safari and where you can ride on quad bikes for fun. Quad bikes are unlike anything I have ever done before. You need to keep the vehicle moving when you are over the sand. If you brake, the bike sinks into the sand and you need to haul it out. It is very addictive and one can spend a fortune on quad bikes
4. Lebanese food is awesome. I can eat humus, kaboose, kebabs forever
5. Lebanese men are even better. I would not mind risking a holiday to Beirut just to ogle at the local population
6. Dubai is a city in a hurry to turn into something else. There is almost nothing of its culture to see (Except the touristy desert safari camp and the even touristier Madinat Jumerieh). It is like looking at Singapore with Arabic subtitles.
7. The workplace is much more professional. I enjoyed the 4 days I worked there more than any other place I worked in India.
8. The city lives its stereotypes. Its taxi drivers are Pakistanis, the waiters are Filipinos and the shop assistants are Mallus.
Good place to work. Good place to shop. OK OK to live.
And added
9. Gujjus are exactly the type of tourists everyone tells you they are. Went with a bunch of them (bless their souls) on the desert safari and they took plenty of Patel snaps (i.e. posing against signboards that conclusively establish they visited the place), sneaked onto someone's else table and pretended they did not hear the earlier occupant shouting at them and enthusiastically lapsed into gujarati the minute they had anything interesting to say.
9 comments:
I think hummus is awesome too, but humus? Erm, isn't that what my plants like to eat? ;)
:) i also kept pronoucing it as humus and that makes it a bit disconcerting to imagine the correct taste. at any rate the menu cards there say 'humous' or something like that, so sticking to any spelling that appeals.
squad bikes? or quad bikes?
Never been to the oil producing countries. Sure sounds like fun. Dubai, in particular, is sin city, isn't it?
Speaking of the lebanese, I had a co-passenger on my flight to africa. Elderly lady, fiftyish, but what complexion! Alabaster. Yea, they're blessed with good looks, though in return their country is used as a proxy battlefield by the oil producers of this world
ah...and you forgot the belly dancer to end the whole safari with...
fun read anita. LOL @ 'Singapore with Arabic subtitles' :) haven't heard too many good things about duabi though. apparently the ppl are superficial etc.
and happy belated birthday!!! remember, the 30s are the new 20s. (whatever that means!!!) :)
byker7 - and i live and learn. corrected
narendra - yeah. i guess avg looks and not too much proxy fighting is a better choice
sandeep - the belly dancer was quite middle aged and looked like your average 80s vamp. so decided not to make a special note. though admittedly some of the ppl that night could have written volumes on that topic
aqua - thanks. yeah am trying to figure out how why it could be the new 20s.
Hey we write in the same way. We write numbered points:). Aint it a lot easier than thinking of segway between points:)
I am very thankful to you. In fact your creative writing abilities have inspired me to start my own Blog . I love to see Desert Safari Dubai wonderful place.
Post a Comment