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A visit to the worlds longest Hotel, the Emirates Palace

Today, we took our second try to get into the famous Emirates Palace, our first try ended at the gate not being let in, because I had worn flip-flops and shorts… This time, with proper clothing (my female company was wearing hot pants and me with long trousers), we were allowed to enter the holy…

March 14, 2013
Dubai seen from “On the top” of Burj Khalifa

Today we will go where we went in our first visit to Dubai, but this time we will go up on the viewing platform of the Burj Khalifa! The journey is quite a walk and a bit confusing, because you enter the building in the basement of the Dubai Mall, where you have to start…

March 9, 2013
Kayaking in the Mangroves of Abu Dhabi

Its time for some water-fun, but this time combined with a bit of sport… we participated once a gain a crew tour, which started a bit chaotic because we arrived a the wrong place, better say the wrong kayaking-company. after a few discussions an confusing phone calls everything worked out and we were ready to…

March 7, 2013
Dolphin watching at the coast of Mascat

After some rather dry trips to the desert etc, this time we joined a crew-excursion to hopefully see some dolphins! We started in Muscat and drove a bit to a marina where we entered our boats, two medium size motorboats, which took us out in open water. And, better than my last try to see…

March 5, 2013
City-tour through Dubai

Today we decided, because we are lazy, to do a Big Bus Tour again. This time through Dubai, where you can choose out of 4 different lines, we took the “beach and city” line, covering all the mayor shopping malls and big sightseeing-spots. Our plan was to do the other lines another day. This day…

March 3, 2013
Dune Bashing time!

Hello there, next city next adventure! This time its time to hit the dunes. We took some nice Off-road vehicles and went out to the desert of Dubai. There we started our adventurous and quite moving drive through some dunes where we met some camels to a little camp where we got some refreshments and…

March 2, 2013
A tour through Abu Dhabi

Hello everyone, now, that i found some time to get around my thousands of pictures, I will wrap up the hole story from the beginning. This time, its our first “touristic” visit to Abu Dhai, we made a Big Bus Tour throughout the whole city including the Big Mosque and the Emirates Palace. The later…

February 28, 2013
Welcome to the Orient!

Welcome back on the ship!This time, we start in a whole new area, the middle east. Its already been 4 weeks now since I arrived with a 30 hour day in Dubai, aprox. two weeks later I found the time to get of the ship the first time, and it was Dubai. So how is…

February 27, 2013
First visit to Oman

so well, Dubai was impressive, but it was not “the” orient… “the” orient can be found in Mascat, Oman. There you will find a nice Souk, little alleys and very friendly people, surrounded by a landscape that looks like the mars. or something like that. If you are interested in geology, Oman is the place…

February 12, 2013
Invergordon Part II

still in scotland, again a second visit to a city. in the citys i have been the second time there was not much difference to the first visit. this time there was something to see that was not so nice. just look at the pictures and watch out for the differnece. here you can find…

June 4, 2012

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