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14 ❯❯ Top 10 Dubai and Abu Dhabi Highlights

Dubai Museum

This cleverly planned museum makes a great starting point for a
tour of Dubai. It gives an insight into traditions past and present, and
offers a vivid picture of how Dubai has crammed into five decades
what most cities achieve in several centuries. Located in the historic
creekside Al Fahidi district (see pp18–19), the museum is set within
and beneath one of the city’s oldest buildings, Al Fahidi Fort. It traces
the city’s meteoric development from a small desert settlement to
the centre of the Arab world for commerce, finance and tourism.

Archaeological
Multimedia
1 3
Presentation
Finds
Interesting artifacts from An interesting 10-minute
excavations of graves that film presentation with
date back to 3,000 BC archive footage explains
are on display, including the development of
fine copper and alabaster modern Dubai from 1960
objects and a selection onward. The film takes
of pottery (above). you through a decade-by-
decade pictorial tour of
Desert at Night
2 Dubai’s transformation
Exhibitions
over the past 50 years.
Learn how animals that
Old Dubai
live in the Arabian desert 4
have adapted to cope Souk Dioramas
Al Fahidi Fort
with the lack of water, Holographic technology 5
extreme temperatures combined with waxwork Constructed in
and shortage of food. figures (below), smells, 1787, this fort, with its
sounds and archive magnificent watchtower,
footage help transport was built to defend the
BEDOUIN CULTURE visitors back in time to Emiratis against invasion.
Bedu, the Arabic word the creekside souks of Renovated in 1971, it now
from which the name half a century ago. serves as a city museum.
Bedouin is derived,
means “inhabitant of the
desert”. Bedouins would
move from oasis to oasis
by camel and engage in
small-scale agriculture.
The hardships of the
desert have imbued
Bedouin culture with a
strong honour code and
a famous hospitality.
Eyewitness Travel – Top 10 series LAYERS PRINTED:
Three-column, 8.25pt grid “UK” LAYER
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Date 12th May 2015
Size 100mm x 191mm