Our time in Dubai

 We landed in Abu Dhabi and immediately caught a bus to Dubai where we were picked up by Shaju.  We arrived in our apartment at Golden Sands Apartments 10 behind Burjuman shopping centre and near Spinneys supermarket.

It was a nice large three bedroom apartment which we had booked through booking.com for about 2000 Dirhams for three nights.

The next morning we headed to Dubai Mall where we had breakfast before meeting Obaid Soomro and family and going to the Observation Deck of Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world.





 For Juma prayers Shaju took us to Al Faisal masjid and then after going to Hussain's house we went to Karachi Darbar for lunch.  After that we headed off to the Desert Safari which was an ejoyable experience.

The next morning Sumayya (the daughter of a friend of Dr Quasim in Nigeria) and her husband, Naeem, came to visit us in the apartment. Obaid saheb then came to pick us up and we went for lunch at Asif's apartment where we met his newly born son, Misbah.

Then it was off to do some shopping (well more like walking around) at Diera Mall.  We managed to spend a bit of money but didn't find that Dubai was much (if any) cheaper than Australia, especially for electronics.

After that we went to Sharjah and walked along the canal and the coast to the TGIF for dinner.  In between was a beautiful water fountain "dance".  We walked back and then Obaid saheb was kind enough to drop us back to the apartment.

Today we intend to spend some more time at Dubai Mall before catching a bus back to Abu Dhabi for our final flight back to Sydney.