We are on to our last day of our Dubai Holiday and since we were boarding the late evening flight back to Muscat, we closed our sight-seeing session at 3 p.m.
Well, we kept easy accessible places for this day so that we could wind up things early. From friends feedback, no Dubai trip is completed without visiting the Gold Souk at the Diera Souq. So out of curiosity we hired our taxi and were off to Diera again.
While driving to Diera, we passed by the Grand Hyatt Yatch club and decided to make a short stop at this place for a brisk tour. And ended up clicking a few pictures.
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
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| Grand Hyatt Yatch Club -Dubai |
Twenty minutes later, we were again driving to our destination - Diera Gold Souq.
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| Dubai Souq entrance |
Our cab driver left us at the entrance and there we stood watching in awe and admiration elegant and innumerable collections of jewels show cased in every shop. And they were several shops in that area with kgs and kgs of Gold. Gold showrooms in every nook and corner of the souq with lovely glinting designs which is sure to make you a confused soul while you struggle to purchase something. It is worth the visit whether you want to buy or not.
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| Gold designs collections showcased in Diera Gold Souq - Dubai |
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| Gold designs collections showcased in Diera Gold Souq - Dubai |
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| Gold designs collections showcased in Diera Gold Souq - Dubai |
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| Gold designs collections showcased in Diera Gold Souq - Dubai |
Gold prices here are amongst the lowest in the world and is largely determined by the gold weight. And they have so many ways to promote their products from raffle draws to discounts and free gifts and several customer drawing schemes. Do you know that Dubai is popularly known as "the city of Gold" ? And I wholeheartedly agree to it after visiting this filthy rich place...... Sigh !!! How lucky could be the ones who are owning a shop at this place .....
After an hour of admiration and totally soaked in the gold atmosphere, we walked a little further to see textiles shops and we decided to buy gifts to our near & dears. The souqs here reminded us of our Indian Bazaars because they looked so identical and we could see a lot of Asians here. Hardly any Emiratis. We could see variety of things here and could bargain and products here do not have fixed prices unlike how it is the malls.
And while we shopped and gathered our shopping bags, we could feel tiny drops of rain falling onto the busy streets which gradually gathered momentum for a 20-minute drizzle. So much to remind us of our India because rain is a common sight there unlike in the Middle east. Felt very nostalgic !!!
Similarly, Dubai has many more souqs like the ones in Bur Dubai and Jumeirah and other old places of Dubai. These Souqs are the business centers of Dubai with several small shops beyond malls and skyscrapers and luxury.
As the curtains were coming down for our memorable Dubai trip, we flipped through our cameras rewinding our stay there - yes, we did enjoy a lot ... but we also missed out so many places in Dubai to see because Dubai is so huge and so wonderful that 5 long and busy days are also not enough to cover the whole of Dubai. And if I tell you what all we missed to see, you will wonder what we actually saw and why on earth we missed out on all these lovely places .... Jumeirah beach, the desert safari, Dubai marina, Dubai creek, wild wadi water park, Ferrari world, Yas island, mono rail ride, global village, Sharjah amusement park, miracle garden etc etc .... I need another week for these ....
We grabbed some sandwiches for a quick lunch and were off to the nearest Metro station to board the Metro and reach Rashidiya station which is the last stop for the Metro. We got down in Rashidiya and hired a taxi to reach back home for our remaining packing.
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| Rashidiya Metro Station |
Then we were off to the airport to board our flight back to Muscat - our home where our heart always is. I realized that I actually missed my home all these days. Felt excited to reach home late that night. And we surely were looking forward to get back to work ... enough of holidays and enough of rest !!! wink .... wink ....
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