Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Back to the Souk

Today, Bob, Gayle & I hitched a ride with Jeff to the DIFC, so we could shorten our taxi ride to our ultimate destination - the textile and spice souk (markets).

The textile souk is in Bur Dubai, while the spice souk is across the creek in Deira, so we opted for the 1 dirham (about 30 cents CDN) ride on a traditional abra. Unfortunately, when we got across to the spice souk, most stalls were closed for their midday break.

All in all, it was a successful day with Gayle & I managing to pick up 10 shawls between the two of us and Bob came home with bag full of Dubai treasures.


Emirates Towers

Gayle checking out all the construction around Jeff's work.

Back at the textile souk.

Bargaining hard.


Refuelling with samosas.

Traditional abra - similar to the False Creek Ferries.

Leaving Bur Dubai.

Enjoying the ride.

Looking down the Dubai Creek.

Spice Souk

I am sure something here could help my cooking.

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