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Discover Dubai
Dubai is the quintessential home of sand, sun and shopping. A century ago it was a tranquil town whose coral and gypsum huts housed Bedouin traders and pearl divers. Today the merchants have gone international and science-fiction skyscrapers stand alongside the mosques and wind towers of Old Dubai.
The boldness of the rulers of the city is breathtaking. Running out of coastline to build hotels? Build vast artificial islands with 120km (74.5mi) of new hotel on the beach. Need better connections with the world? Build an award-winning international airline in 15 years.
When to go
The best time of year to visit Dubai is between November and April when the weather is coolest. The rest of the year you are more likely to run from an air-conditioned environment to the next, rather than out and explore. Ramadan, which takes place at a different time each year in the Western calendar is the Muslim month of fasting and is strictly on the entire UAE met. This means that it is illegal not to mention rude, to eat, drink or smoke in public from sunrise to sunset on this Time. On the 'up' side hotel prices fall to 50% of their usual cost.
Dangers & Annoyances
Familiarize yourself with local customs regarding dress code and alcohol is your first step to keep out of trouble. On the whole, Dubai is a very safe city, but you should exercise the same kind of careful with your personal safety, as it is everywhere. A very real threat in Dubai is run poorly. Be aware of the Driving and walking near busy roads, speed limits, display and other security-related traffic rules do not apply to many in Dubai. We do not recommend that you swim, water ski or jet ski in the Creek. The tides in the Gulf are not strong enough to flush the waterway is like this regularly It is not clean, despite what the tourist authorities might say. Also, be careful when swimming in open sea. Despite the small streams can surf very be strong and drowning are not uncommon.
Orientation
Dubai is actually two cities combined in a single and divided by Dubai Creek (Khor Dubai), an inlet of the Gulf. Deira lies to the north and Bur Dubai to the south. Both districts are home to traditional architecture and bustling souks, but the old city center is in Deira. Glittering new office buildings along Sheikh Zayed Road (Also known as the Trade Centre Road) in Bur Dubai are threatening to oust him as town real center of gravity.
The focus of Deira's hustle and bustle is on Baniyas Rd, which runs along Dubai Creek; called and Naif Rd-space and is still generally regarded as such; Baniyas used place called Al-Nasr Al-Maktoum Al-Maktoum Hospital Road and Rd. On the Bur Dubai side of the old souq area runs from Al-Ghubaiba Rd to the Diwan (Ruler's Office) and inland ports as far as Khalid bin al-Walid Road.
There are really no street names in Dubai. People relate to the main streets of name, but the smaller, numbered streets remain largely anonymous. If someone offers you Directions such as "it is in the white villa, next to the big tree, across from the Avari Hotel" not angry. The taxi drivers know the road.
Visa Overview
British citizens and nationals of most Gulf countries do not need a visa, Gulf citizens can stay as long as they want, Britons for up to three months. All other visitors must have a visa. Your hotel to find a 15-day, nonrenewable Visa or a month extended visit visa sponsor. Note that your passport is evidence of travel to Israel you will be denied access to the United Arab Emirates.
Phone overview
The UAE has an efficient telecommunications system. Calls within Dubai emirate without Hatta be charged. The State Telecommunications monopoly held by Etisalat. If you need to make a call from the airport, there are telephones at the other end of the baggage claim area. Some of the lounges at the Gates in the departure hall have phones from which you can make free local calls.
Pay phones are almost completely taken over telephones. Phone cards are from different places, including grocery stores, supermarkets and petrol stations – do not buy it from street vendors, as they are often "recycled" and do not work. Note that there are two phone cards, one for phones and ones for cell phones on the Wasel Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) service.
Mobile Overview
Mobile numbers start with 050 in the United Arab Emirates. Often people give her seven-digit mobile number which will be without this prefix such as cell phones have the standard means of communication in Dubai. If you do not have a global roaming service and want to use your phone in Dubai, buy a prepaid SIM card from Etisalat. Recharge cards are available from grocery stores, supermarkets and petrol stations available – And once again do not buy it from street vendors.
The UAE Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services introduced, the available Wasel GSM users is the same as the normal UAE-based GSM subscribers. Everything you need to do is dial 125 and follow the instructions.
People of Arab (61%), South Asia (22%), Iran (8%), other expats (9%)
Female travelers
In general, Dubai is one of the best locations in the Middle East women travelers. Check-in hotels is usually not a problem if women could do unaccompanied, to think twice about in a room in some of the budget hotels in Deira and Bur Dubai. They are known for the inclusion of prostitutes from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Africa, and you can run the risk of a Error.
Although things may be better in Dubai than in other parts of the Gulf, it does not mean that some of the problems that accompany it travel in the Middle East not arise here as well as unwanted male attention and long, suggestive looks. You can squeaked by people in passing cars, but the Most times are taxi drivers promoting business. Try not to be intimidated, it helps to keep a sense of humor.
Dubai is a very liberal place and the people here are western women. While there is liberal, try to dress conservatively when you are at the local Emiratis. It is when one of Dubai, you meet a different setting. Do not wear tight or revealing clothing. Women should always sit in the back seat of the taxi. You will find that you are often asked asked the front seat or sitting in buses, in addition to his other women. This is so you can stare the agony of the men avoided.
In banks, Etisalat, are post offices and libraries are usually separate sections for Windows or women – great if there is a queue. In small Arab and Indo-Pakistani restaurants They are often ushered in the "family room". They do not sit here, but the room is there to save you stared in front of men.
Gay & Lesbian Scene
Homosexuality is officially illegal in the United Arab Emirates and can result in a prison sentence. Gay travelers have no problems, however, travel in the UAE. You will see men go hand in hand, but no evidence that sexual orientation is. Women Hand in hand are not seen as often.
Dubai has made great efforts to promote a tolerant made safe tourist destination, and gay and lesbian Travelers do not face any discrimination or legal problems, short of staging march gay pride Sheikh Zayed Road. Basically, authorities are not bad publicity, so there is usually only a problem if a situation is played out in public. For example, crossed night club that had a strong gay following the line if there be flyers posted around the city appealing to local gays and drag queens. Only then, the authorities were forced to take action. Note that specifically gay-oriented Web sites in the United Arab Emirates are blocked.
Travelers with Disabilities
Dubai Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing has a very detailed list of the facilities offered at dozens of hotels for disabled people. All major shopping centers are wheelchair accessible but ramps in parking garages and in most buildings in the city are few and far between. There are a number of parking spaces for disabled drivers.
Dubai Transport Company has taxis can accommodate, wheelchairs. The airport has facilities for disabled passengers, including low check-in counters, but the Do things more difficult when you are out of the airport. While many hotels in Dubai say now that they disabled-friendly, not all of them specifically on the details be defined by what it actually means. Dubai Museum has ramps, as well as other tourist attractions are accessible for disabled visitors to get around on their own difficult. Dubai airport has modern facilities for people with disabilities, including lounges and trucks for the movement of the station concourse.
Pre History of the 20th Century
Although little is known about the ancient history of this area, archaeological finds suggest that humans living here since at least 3000 BC. Other evidence links the peoples of what are now the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman to the mysterious Bronze Age Magan civilization. Magan ships sailed to Babylonia, Mesopotamia and beyond, trading copper from Oman and pearls from the mouth of Dubai Creek with the heavyweights of the Bronze Age economy. The Magan civilization waned around 2000 BC, but Dubai's instinct for trade remained.
Excavations at Jumeirah, just south of Dubai, recently unearthed a 6. Century caravan station, proving that the area of population, he continued the trade routes well oiled during this period. Around this same time, the Sassanid a Persian dynasty, the mouth of Dubai Creek since 224 had been inhabited by the Umayyads, who came to stay and brought Islam with them driven.
Utilization its location between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, the new inhabitants, working with the old, began re-establishing old trade routes and spreading the word of God, All the time people make fantastic deals for the lowest everyday prices in the Gulf region. As the commercial significance of pearl diving began for the local economy that merchant dhows sailed as far as China and returned with silk and porcelain for Middle Eastern and European markets. This maritime madness reached its peak between 750 and 1258.
Soon everyone wanted a piece of golf action. By the late 16 Century, the Portuguese tried to control the local trade. Their success was so great that many coastal settlements were practically abandoned, and the tribes took refuge in oases far from the coast. The British finally gained control of the region Waterways in 1766. Dubai was caught between local power struggles and Europe's imperial dreams, but somehow turned this bad situation to his advantage, extended its pearl trade on all channels.
In 1833 a neighboring tribal power, the Bani Yas, decided that Dubai would be its new turf. Eight hundred Bani Yas moved into the Bur Dubai, led by Butti Maktoum, founder of the bin Al-Maktoum dynasty that still rules the emirate today.
The region's two economic Epicenters, neighboring Sharjah and Lingah in Iran today, were too busy already losing business Dubai. Sheikh Maktoum decided to seize the opportunity. In 1892 he signed an exclusive contract with the UK business and in 1894 allowed full tax exemption for foreign entrepreneurs. Persian merchants The first group of expats to take advantage of the deal, but traders were all over the world on the road.
Modern history
In 1903, when Sheikh to make a major British port of Dubai Shipping Company believes began a 25-year boom. The world economic crisis exacerbated by the Emergence of artificial pearls in 1929 cast a dark cloud over Dubai's newfound prosperity. Young Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed al-Maktoum, convinced that the pearl Trade was dead, decided that this cloud had a 24-karat lining. Dubai was not duty-free for nothing. Soon, the Re-export business, with cheap goods in a duty-free port were imported and immediately exported to another market, exploded. After Dubai Creek was dredged in 1963, so that almost any boat safe harbor, and took gold Smuggling off like a rocket.
Dubai's lucky streak had only just begun. In 1966 oil was discovered and kicked the economy at full speed. The British had already decided to seize the kingdom and head home, and in 1971 became the seventh emirate of the newly formed UAE. Sheikh Rashid agreed to a formula that the emirates Abu Dhabi and Dubai the largest weight in the association were, and made sure that Dubai will continue a life in the fast lane. Border disputes and friction about the integration of the Emirates led to some tensions, but closed in 1979 Sheikh Rashid and Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi a compromise, in effect, Dubai would remain a bastion of free trade, while Abu Dhabi was a strong federal structure on the rest of the Emirates.
When Sheikh Rashid, the architect of Dubai's success and financial freedom without competition, Died in 1990, his son Sheikh Maktoum the reins of power. The core of Maktoum's policy is economic freedom and no taboos in promoting Dubai, the city makes a very pleasant place.
Modern History
World-class tennis tournaments, boat and horse races, desert rallies and one the largest air shows in the world attract millions of visitors to the city. Other high-profile events like the Dubai Shopping Festival and Dubai Summer Surprises bring hordes of tourists to the city. Games tourism trade and oil in importance the emirate economy.
The history of Dubai reads like a rags-to-riches story and although it's hard to imagine anywhere else in the world that has developed at such a pace, in such a short time so many different people.
Sights Places
There are two sides of Dubai to explore – the sleek, futuristic world of mirrored skylines, chilled-air malls and James Bond-style artificial Islands, and old Dubai, perhaps most clearly in his old mosques and countless souks selling all represent a different specialty.
Deira Gold Souk Markets
Sikkat al-Khali St Deira
Deira Gold Souq attracts buyers from celebrated all over the world. Pass through its wooden lattice archways and you'll find great dazzling heaps of gold chains, rings, earrings, bracelets and any other type of jewelry. It also sells silver.
Dubai Museum
Museum
Al-Fahidi Road Bur Dubai
The Dubai Museum is located in the Al Fahidi housed Fort, which was in the late Built in 1790s and is probably the oldest building. The museum has collections of everything from Arabian sailing boats to the curved daggers known as khanjars. There are multimedia and interactive displays, and all exhibits have captions in Arabic and English
Grand Mosquereligious / spiritual
Ali Talib Ali Ibin St Bur Dubai
This multi-domed mosque, the city offers the highest minaret. The mosque might appear, a fine example of restoration, but it was in the Indeed, in the 1990s built. Apart from being the center of religious and cultural life of Dubai, the original mosque is also home to the city Kuttab (Quranic school), where children learned to recite the Koran by heart.
Maintaining the style of the original Grand Mosque, which was dated from 1900 and to make room for more Mosque in 1960, making mix knocked his sand-colored walls and wooden shutters in perfectly with the surrounding old city of Bur Dubai.
Perfume Souq Markets
Sikkat al-Khali St Deira
While the Perfume Souq is really just a group of shops, it sells an astonishing range of Arab and European perfumes. The European perfumes are a mixture of designer originals and copies, while the Arabic perfumes are much stronger and spicier. It's worth buying some of the latter for the kitsch packaging alone
Spice Souk markets
Al Deira Abra St
The Old Souq is Diera a wonderful place to walk and the smell of spices and fruits. In the eastern part of the market you will find bags of frankincense, dried lemons, ginger, chili and cardamom. The rest of the market is full of rugs, shoes, crockery, glassware and amusingly tacky little jewelry.
Places to eat
The rich cultural mix of the population of Dubai is reflected in the myriad of restaurants and cafes in the city. From the simplest of Indian-Pakistani workers Cafe in Karama to the gastronomic delights and decor of restaurants at the swanky five-star hotels, Dubai offers a huge selection of dining experiences.
Night Time Venues
Abundant entertainment options mean that you keep exploring Dubai in the early morning hours. See see live music, live DJs playing music, beautiful See people dancing to music that people can see at a dance break sharing a bit of traditional Shisha (water pipe) in a café.
Holidays Shop
Dubai's shopping muscle draws lifeblood from the thriving contrast to the traditional souks, boutiques and high-Super-malls, each crowded with fresh produce, old-world exotica, designer collections and new-wave gadgetry. The visit of shoppers do not know where to begin.
Recognized as the best hotel the world
Designed to resemble a billowing sail, stands the hotel at a height of 321 meters, dominating the Dubai coastline. In the evening, it offers a sight to behold, through choreographed color sculptures of water and fire surround. This all-suite hotel reflects the finest, the world has to offer.
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