Monday 24 February 2014

Dubai Diaries: The Souk's

What is that you say? It's been four months since my last post. Eeeekkkkk!! Well I have no elaborate reason for my absence. It has been a complete contradiction of being busy at work and just procrastinating when I get home. That is not say the things haven't been happening in my life (if you follow my instagram you will have seen). There has been another holiday (to Morocco), my birthday, the new year, making and eating lost of food and just life stuff. But before we get into all that I realised that I haven't finished my 'Dubai Diaries' so here goes.

When you think of Dubai you think of the tallest buildings, the biggest malls, the seven start hotels and all of that which is all well and good but I really wanted to see and older part of Dubai with the souk's and the markets. We could have spent the whole day just exploring all the narrow alleyways, but the day we went it was probably one of the hottest day of the trip which was clear by the amount of water that was consumed that day. That didn't stop us from being totally in awe of all the touristy trinkets, spices, colours and aromas.


Traditional shoes



Camels 



Colourful umbrellas 



Love the design on this lamp 



Garlands 



Oooooohhhh the lights



All the spice mountains ( I don't even know what half of them are)



Another narrow alleyway of the markets 



Some more spices that I don't know 

 So here is to getting back into blogging and not having another four months off.  `