It was my dream to visit Europe. After lot of discussions we decided that we would do the trip on our own (not booking through a tour with guide, hotel and sight seeing etc fixed by the tour planners) and we would visit Dubai , London and France.
Lot of Research was done by hubby dear (he has already visited London, and Paris). The only contributions to this, from my side was talking to friends and relatives who have visited the places and write down the names of places they say 'must see' or ' should not miss' and add it to the never ending list of places to be seen . As I had not visited any of these places I kept nodding to the numerous print outs given by my better half, without knowing what they were.
Dubai was no problem because my dear brother lives there with my dear manni (sister in law) and so all I had to do was send him e mails as to the list of places I would like to see. Again all the inputs were from friends here who had seen Dubai and 'must see' ' should not miss' list.
Finally the day of departure dawned or should I say 'dusked' as we started late in the night .(the flight was at 2 a.m.)
The taxi driver was driving crazy which made me very scared. He seemed not well as he was continuously wheezing and dropped us in the airport in 45 minutes. The trip usually takes about one plus hour.
The Flight was Emirates flight and this was my first trip in this airlines. The service was quite good and the flight entertainment was very good as there was lot of choice of Indian movies. The food was also good but I just had a Vegge Burger and did not take the dinner they served as it was not dinner time. The journey was quite turbulent so I spent time , praying, watching movie(s), sleeping .
We reached Dubai around 4.30 a.m. local time. Venkatesh, my brother had arranged 'Marhaba' Service, which is a professional Welcome service. Our trip really started in a great way with a lady (that too a beautiful one) welcoming us and helping us with immigration and baggage claim and brought us to their lounge. We waited there and within few minutes Venkatesh came to pick us up from there. He took us home which is quite near the Airport (compared to our home here which is 60 plus kilometers from the Airport) and my Vijaya Manni was waiting for us at home.
It was Summer so the water in the tap was so hot that we had to wait for the collected water in buckets to cool down before taking bath. To make it more nice my brother added ice cubes to the water!
We had a very good breakfast of idli, vadai, sambhar and badam kheer.
We went to a temple after breakfast. We had to walk through a gully(kannada word) a small road which had lots of shops on both sides. It was very similar to the big market in Istanbul in Turkey . But the shops were closed due to Ramzan.
It was a Shiva temple and lot of rush and big queue was there. There was a Nath Dwara Krishna temple near by which also we visited. We had a good Darshan.
It was quite hot, but some how I had expected it to be much more hot.
After lunch we went to the Dubai Mall . This is where the Burj Khaleefa the tallest building (tallest man made structure) in the world is situated.
The Mall is quite big and beautiful. First we roamed around and saw the Burj from outside. The building is Classic and has a Clover Shape. We both instantaneously fell in love with this structure which reminded us of our own! Twin Tower in KL, but this Tower is Single!!
Venkatesh had bought tickets for us to go up the Burj in advance. (On holidays you have to book in advance). We went up to 124th Floor and there is an Observation Deck which goes around the building. The building is very broad at the bottom and as it goes up becomes narrower and the circumference reduces.
We had a wonderful view of Dubai from up there. Dubai has lots of high rise buildings of different shapes and lovely beautiful roads and highways. All these looked very nice from the top. We spent about an hour there at the top. We came down and proceeded to a small Water Fountain and there was just a 'five' minute musical fountain show. This was quite good and reminded us of the musical fountains of Singapore and K.L. of Nineties , much before the recent Laser fountain shows. The simple musical fountain has its own charm with water dancing up and down to the beat of music. Our day ended with a wonderful dinner in a Restaurant called 'Gazebo' Venkatesh ordered a special bread and the side dishes were also excellent.
Lot of Research was done by hubby dear (he has already visited London, and Paris). The only contributions to this, from my side was talking to friends and relatives who have visited the places and write down the names of places they say 'must see' or ' should not miss' and add it to the never ending list of places to be seen . As I had not visited any of these places I kept nodding to the numerous print outs given by my better half, without knowing what they were.
Dubai was no problem because my dear brother lives there with my dear manni (sister in law) and so all I had to do was send him e mails as to the list of places I would like to see. Again all the inputs were from friends here who had seen Dubai and 'must see' ' should not miss' list.
Finally the day of departure dawned or should I say 'dusked' as we started late in the night .(the flight was at 2 a.m.)
The taxi driver was driving crazy which made me very scared. He seemed not well as he was continuously wheezing and dropped us in the airport in 45 minutes. The trip usually takes about one plus hour.
The Flight was Emirates flight and this was my first trip in this airlines. The service was quite good and the flight entertainment was very good as there was lot of choice of Indian movies. The food was also good but I just had a Vegge Burger and did not take the dinner they served as it was not dinner time. The journey was quite turbulent so I spent time , praying, watching movie(s), sleeping .
We reached Dubai around 4.30 a.m. local time. Venkatesh, my brother had arranged 'Marhaba' Service, which is a professional Welcome service. Our trip really started in a great way with a lady (that too a beautiful one) welcoming us and helping us with immigration and baggage claim and brought us to their lounge. We waited there and within few minutes Venkatesh came to pick us up from there. He took us home which is quite near the Airport (compared to our home here which is 60 plus kilometers from the Airport) and my Vijaya Manni was waiting for us at home.
It was Summer so the water in the tap was so hot that we had to wait for the collected water in buckets to cool down before taking bath. To make it more nice my brother added ice cubes to the water!
We had a very good breakfast of idli, vadai, sambhar and badam kheer.
We went to a temple after breakfast. We had to walk through a gully(kannada word) a small road which had lots of shops on both sides. It was very similar to the big market in Istanbul in Turkey . But the shops were closed due to Ramzan.
It was a Shiva temple and lot of rush and big queue was there. There was a Nath Dwara Krishna temple near by which also we visited. We had a good Darshan.
It was quite hot, but some how I had expected it to be much more hot.
After lunch we went to the Dubai Mall . This is where the Burj Khaleefa the tallest building (tallest man made structure) in the world is situated.
The Mall is quite big and beautiful. First we roamed around and saw the Burj from outside. The building is Classic and has a Clover Shape. We both instantaneously fell in love with this structure which reminded us of our own! Twin Tower in KL, but this Tower is Single!!
Venkatesh had bought tickets for us to go up the Burj in advance. (On holidays you have to book in advance). We went up to 124th Floor and there is an Observation Deck which goes around the building. The building is very broad at the bottom and as it goes up becomes narrower and the circumference reduces.We had a wonderful view of Dubai from up there. Dubai has lots of high rise buildings of different shapes and lovely beautiful roads and highways. All these looked very nice from the top. We spent about an hour there at the top. We came down and proceeded to a small Water Fountain and there was just a 'five' minute musical fountain show. This was quite good and reminded us of the musical fountains of Singapore and K.L. of Nineties , much before the recent Laser fountain shows. The simple musical fountain has its own charm with water dancing up and down to the beat of music. Our day ended with a wonderful dinner in a Restaurant called 'Gazebo' Venkatesh ordered a special bread and the side dishes were also excellent.
2 comments:
1. Fly over is awesome. It is a man made wonder of steel and cement.
2. Khaleefa Burj is equally awesome. I had seen the photos in internet. But seeing so close and watching the surrounding from the building tower must be a great experience. Do all the floors of Khaleefa Burj have shopping centres?
Just some 3 or 4 floors are shopping Mall. It has residential apartments, Office Spaces and also a Hotel.
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