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Dubai Souks 7 NEED TO KNOW
Deira Spice
Souk
This tiny souk is a real Open 10am–10pm
sensory delight. You (some souks shut at
can purchase aromatic 1:30pm to attend the
frankincense and myrrh prayers) • www.dubai­
(with charcoal burners tourism.ae
for them), plus an array • Bargaining is expected.
of spices (left) such Start at half of the initial
as cloves, cardamom price and haggle until
and cinnamon. Iranian you reach a compromise.
saffron is particularly
good value, too. • Tax-free prices in
Dubai make luxury
items such as perfume
and electronic goods
highly affordable.
• Around the Bur Dubai
souks are good-value
Indian restaurants.
Dubai Food
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Souk
Great piles of colourful
fruit and vegetables
(especially dates), huge
hunks of meat and heaps
of ocean-fresh hammour
and shark are just some
of the foodstuffs on offer
at this bustling souk.
Karama Souk
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This souk offers
“copy” items, especially
watches and handbags.
The quality of much of
the products, although
fake, is very good (below).
Bur Dubai Textile Souk
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Beautifully restored, this creekside souk
Dubai Creek (above) is covered by an arched pergola. It makes
BANIYAS R OA D
for an atmospheric walkway lined with money
DEIR A AL KHALEEJ RD
lenders and little stalls selling reels of cloured cloth.
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Bur Dubai
Deira Perfume
Souk
Meena Bazaar
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A L FA H I D I S T
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may necessitate a trip
heavy exotic scents like
BANIYAS Be warned, a visit here Fascinating shops sell
B UR DUB AI SQUARE
to a tailor. Wonderful jasmine, oudh, amber
fabrics from all over the and rose, and will also
world, in every colour mix individual “signature
and texture imaginable scents”. Traditional
(silks, satins, brocades, Arabian attars are for
linens and more), are sale alongside well-
laid out before you. known Western brands.
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