Souks in Dubai

Souk is the traditional Arab name of an open market with a bit of Oriental charm of disorder, the place to sell and buy everything possible.

Gold Souk, courtesy of Joi,flickr

Souks were the intergal part of life in Dubai, until the modern development of large shopping malls, that started to compete with price and quantity. Everyone was buying the local food and small everydays items, even the electronics, on 'their' market.

Hotel Hilton Dubai Creek

Hotel Hilton Dubai Creek is located in the very centre of the city. % km from the airport, several minutes by car from the main shopping malls, the hotel features the marvelous view of the Dubai Creek. The floor to ceiling windows installed in each room allow to enjoy the view of the city and the creek.

Burj Al Arab

The symbolic opening of the hotel in December 1999 allowed Dubai to enter the new millennium with the new icon - the tallest hotel in the world, Burj al Arab.

The hotel shaped like the big sail lies on its own artificial island connected with the land by the long, guarded causeway. To pass by the guards one needs to present the proof of room reservation, or a seat reservation in one of hotel's restaurants or cafes.

Five best landmark hotels in Dubai

Dubai has the luck for the new buildings, that soon after completing became the easy recognizable icons of the city balancing on the frontiers of human imagination.
The architects are given here free hand, and the final shape of the construction is limited only by the material abilities.