Day 44 (Sun 20 Aug) - Dubai

After a fabulous nights sleep and a massive buffet breakfast we decided to explore the local area. We only managed to walk about ten steps before we had to dive into a shop to cool down. It was over 43 degrees and we were cooking.

We found an internet cafe near by, done some blogging, and cooled down for a bit before heading back to the hotel for a rest.

Later in the afternoon we attempted to brave the climates in search of another internet cafe where we could upload our photos onto the blog. After visiting two places without success, we found out that the United Arab Emirates has banned our internet uploading site (Flickr) for cultural, religious and moral reasons.

Although it was very humid and we were sweating buckets we decided to walk ( [1], [2] ) around the city.

First we came across a street which is called Computer Street - it looks like Tottenham Court Road - crammed with computer and technical shops.

By the harbour we stumbled across a massive french supermarket - Carrefour. It looked really out of place.

We continued along the creek ( [1], [2] ) and arrived in the textile area, which was very bright and colourful. We then seemed to walk into the jewellery area for there were loads of flash jewellery shops (bling, bling). We were getting hungry so decided to go for an Indian - well to be honest there wasn't anything but Indian restaurants. We had a very tasty meal and sweated back to the cool hotel.