Museums, Souks and More Malls.

There just has not been enough time and it has been too hot to see everything that we would like in Dubai.

This morning we set off to explore old Dubai. We visited the museum located in the old sector of Dubai in an old fort, which houses a series of recreations of life as it was. It was not so much the contents of the museum but how it was displayed, that was so impressive.
Later, we visited 2 other interesting museums, the Al-Ahmadiya School, the first school established in 1912. It was particularly interesting to us and we walked through the museum for about 1 hour without seeing another visitor.

From there we walked to the nearby Heritage House where again we spent time looking at the displays. We were greeted with dates and tea but drank about a litre of water each from their refrigerated dispenser. Again we were the only visitors during the hour we spent there. We particularly enjoyed the display on children’s games and delighted in the fact that their games had incredible similarities to the games played by all children.

We also visited the souks but found them somewhat disappointing in comparison with other more traditional ones we have seen. Dubai is just too modern a city and it seems the locals prefer the modern mall so we joined them and visited several more.

We have visited our last sight, eaten our last meal, packed our bags and booked our wakeup call because we fly home tomorrow. We leave after an early breakfast in the morning.

                                         The old fort is now a modern museum.

                                           At the museum, the pearl merchants.

                                                    At the museum,from an archaeological dig, 2 bodies entwined.

                                         At the spice souk.

                                        At the old house museum, the wind tunnel, an early form of aircon