Rotana Jet || Flying High
My time in Abu Dhabi & 2-week stint in the UAE has come to an end. I’m en route to Muscat, Oman, somewhere I last visited back in 2008. The original plan was to bus it there, necessitating a return to Dubai, but I gladly put that idea to bed when I...
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Although it may seem the case, the United Arab Emirates isn’t just a stage for Dubai to strut its increasingly crazy stuff. It has a capital city (no Dubai isn’t it) that offers its own we’re-not-losing-the-run-of-ourselves sights & attractions,...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2014)
The jewel of the Arab world that has sprung from the desert in recent years to reinvent itself as the world’s premier 5-star luxury tourist destination.
Jazeera Airways || Flying High
Jazeera Airways. Nope, I’d never heard of them either, not before booking a flight with them a few weeks ago. Based out of Kuwait, seemingly they are the Middle East’s cheap, no-frills carrier (some, Jazeera themselves included, prefer the term low-fares), the...
Country Counters
I had to do a double, triple, quadruple take of the departures board here Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, Istanbul, Turkey. I couldn’t see a flight to Dubai anywhere. My flight to Dubai. I got that sinking feeling. I was worried but only long enough to...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2008)
Dubai, the jewel of the Arab world, is one of the 7 emirates that make up the oil-rich Persian Gulf country of The United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny emirate, twice the size of London, is a kingdom built on the profits of its oil reserves and so one shouldn’t...