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The beautifully manicured greens of the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club
Dubai Creek Golf
5 as the Perfume Souk – although
and Yacht Club
there’s no actual souk building.
MAP E2 • Garhoud • 04 295 6000 Dozens of small shops line the
This soaring white building, inspired street, selling a mix of international
by the sails of a dhow and sitting brands and local perfumes. The
amidst rolling greens, is a city land best are made using the aromatic
mark, visible from both Maktoum oud (derived from aloe wood) and
and Garhoud bridges. Opened in come in ornate cutglass bottles.
January 1993, the worldclass golf Most shops also allow you to create
course here is the centrepiece of a your own scents from their selection
sprawling leisure complex that also of perfume oils (see p27).
incorporates a 115berth marina. The
separate yacht club incorporates
the Aquarium, an excellent seafood DEIRA HISTORY
restaurant, as well as one of Dubai’s Liberal trade policies are behind the
most popular alfresco eateries, the development of Deira, which, by the
Boardwalk (see p63), which sits on early 20th century, had become the
stilts and offers a spectacular view of largest souk on the Arabian coast. It was
the creek, especially at night when a haven for merchants who left Lingah,
the illuminated dhows pass by. on the Persian coast, after high customs
were introduced there in 1902. They
Perfume Souk
6 continued to trade with Lingah, as do
many of the dhows in the creek.
Immediately east of the Gold
Souk, Sikkat al Khail Rd is home to
Spice Souk
an array of shops popularly known 7
Moody and atmospheric, the
Exotic spices at the Spice Souk Spice Souk is a sensory trip into the
past, where you can wander through
a maze of narrow alleyways of shops
piled high with aromatic spices. You’ll
find sacks of cinnamon sticks,
frankincense, cumin, coriander seed
and oud. Some great souvenir buys
include frankincense (sold with a
charcoal burner), henna kits (for
hand and body decoration), saffron
and fragrant rose water (see p27).
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