Mar 12, 2001 11:42 AM
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When you grow up in New York and have parents who just dont like Arabs, you get this feeling that every Arab country has to be bad. Infact I once asked my dad, why he doesnt like Arabs, he did not have an answer. He told me that it was a general perception in India. Thank god I was not born and brought up in india with pre-conceived misconception.(THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE NOW!! AS ASYS POINTED OUT IN THE COMMENTS!!! My dad left Bombay 22 years ago and has not been good in keeping touch!! He still thinks India works and thinks the same way as he left it. But the poor man doesnt get any time from opening up ppls brains!! he is a neuro surgeon.)
I was just startled when I happened to visit Dubai. I was travelling to China on a school trip and we had a 8 hr halt in Dubai. They allowed us to get out of the airport and that was the beginning of an adventure and fun that I still long for and wud always wanna go back.
Once, we were out of the airport we were just amazed at how alive and beautiful Dubai was. It happened to be Dubai Shopping Festival and just loved it. All of us agreed that we had to stay back (we were 11 people in that group). We called up our travel agent in US and somehow managed to change our schedule and got 2 days to stay back in Dubai.
The decoration in Dubai was just amazing. PPl just too friendly. PPl in the hote told us that they ususally with Americans, ppl there were extra courteous. I am not sure about that, cos I am Indian by origin and I dont walk with my passport in my hand.
All of us went crazy buying cheap stuff. I bought Gold Jewellery from Mr. POPLEy himelf..besides I did so much shopping that my credit card maxed out and I had to call my parents to make a payement. LOL.
The roads in Dubai are excellent. Better than US. The food is awesome. I liked arabic food too, especially their dtyle of tea. I am not such a good writer, but trust me it was a GREAT experience. I would love to go there again and again.
I was not feeling like going back. But we had to as our travel agent wud kick our b if we asked him change plans again LOL
