Dubai heritage ...

Another morning of sitting by the pool with Leigh and lunch back in the room. After our lunch Luke and I returned back to the pool as we wanted to do the Dubai creek but we didn't want to do it when it was so hot.Our hotel is situated near the creek so we google mapped it and saw that it was after the al fahidi metro so we couldn't get the metro to it so we decided to walk. It was only a twenty minute walk but we were drenched with sweat by the time we got there.

However it was a straight walk down past the metro which is a straight road anyway. Walk straight over the roundabout and your at the Dubai heritage village. This is a great place with traditional buildings that all house different historic information or shops or restaurants. Some you can walk in and go up to the top floor and get a great view of the village and creek.

We then walked down the road to the left of the roubdabout as you arrive, Go past the shops and follow the road round and you'll see the Dubai museum. We didn't go in as the sun was setting and we wanted to get accross the creek before sundown . However i have been in before and it's a must see. It's very cleverly done and very interesting tosee Dubai how it was compared to now. It's cheap too so you deffo get value for money.

After the museum is the courts , if you follow the road around , you'll see the tourist souk , walk through here , sellers will try their hardest to get you to go in their shops but hold your head high and carry on straight through and you'll see the creek and you'll see the Abra's (boats -small wooden ones) these are 1dhm each and will take you accross the creek.

Once accross walk left down the road until you come to a bend and you'll see another souk , this is the spice souk . It's well worth a walk down. If you return back to this bend then walk away fron tge creek into the heart of this area, you will see the gold souk, this place is amazing and holds the guiness world record biggest gold ring!! When your ready to return accross the creek , go back to your original abra drop off placeas the ones on the corner are round trip ones.

We then walked back to the village and the first restaurant is called local house restaurant  it's set in a traditional Dubai building and has traditional seating and fabric but the best bit is , they do camel burgers. Now we had never had one but my grandad said they were supern so we had the one with caramelised onions and spicy mushrooms. , they come with potato wedges which are lovely . They are 45 dhms each buteow, well worth the money, my mouth is watering just still thinking about them. They were chewy but tasted like a steak burger and best bit us , they are healthy. We also had traditional mutabrak (meat cooked in bread) for starter and was really impressed. Our bill cane to 149 dhms for everything inc two cokes and it was worth every penny , woukd return every night if we could !!

Having a great time , missing you all

Love S&L xxx