Dubai & Abu Dhabi 7 - Full PDF eBook

Top Table Dine at one of the celebrity-chef restaurants in Dubai or abu Dhabi and let your tastebuds convince you that every sou ...

January a sful month here blis when much of the world is suffering post- holiday doldrums and icy conditions� expect daytime tem ...

Al-Jahili Fort in Al-Ain, a 90-minute drive south of Dubai. (www.aacf.ae) z bai du international boat show Don your deck shoes a ...

ALI HAIDER/ EPA /CO RBIS (^) © STR/R Eu TERS /C ORBIS © (Top) Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (Bottom) Opening night party of the Dubai Int ...

Junior Foodies When spirits and feet start to drag, there’s plenty of ice cream and kid-friendly meals to pick them back up – lo ...

personal with dolphins at Dolphin Bay (p115) or the Dubai Dolphinarium (p67) at Creekside Park. Back on dry land, the Ris al-Kho ...

Men’s traditional dance, Shindagha Heritage Area (p66) Souq Time Wandering around the souqs in Bur Dubai (p66) and Deira (p52) h ...

pearl merchant’s residence with the only cost being the non-obligatory coffee and snacks (Dh1). Next door is the original Al- Ah ...

Wining & dining Enjoying a glass of wine with dinner is not standard practice in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. There are essentially ...

f nest i fast food Prepared authentically, the best fast food ever invented just has to be the shwarma, the staple food of the M ...

s lf- e catering The small grocery stores around Dubai are good for a box of washing powder, but they’re not much fun to browse ...

Lonely Planet’s Top Choices Xiao Wei Yang (p54) Fresh ingredients are prepared at the table at this down-to-earth Mongolian hotp ...

Which bar? Finding the right bar can be tricky. Dubai is the playground of the parvenu as much as it’s a city of expat workers. ...

Although most bars remain open in the evening (it is still legal to serve alcohol after sundown), live-music venues and nightclu ...

When arriving by air, you can, as a non- Muslim visitor over 18, buy certain quanti- ties of booze in the airport duty-free shop ...

Lonely Planet’s Top Choices Rooftop Bar (p109) indulge in a little gentle hip-swinging to chilled-out sounds while enjoy- ing pa ...

Movie Time If you want to catch a movie, you’ve got plenty of high-tech multiplexes to take in the blockbusters; almost all are ...

Pakistani and Iranian acts draw big crowds of expat locals... This is the stuff you can’t hear back home. Check Time Out and 7 D ...

s oppingh Dubai loves to shop. The city has just about perfected the art of the mall, which is the de facto ‘town plaza’: the pl ...

h w to o find a bargain The range of stores – high-street to de- signer, electronics to carpets – is amazing, but true bargains ...