The Dubai Museum

Today we went to the Dubai Museum. Entrance into the museum was three dirhams...which is equal to $1 so can't beat that for an afternoon of entertainment. The museum shows the early years of Dubai and how the city came to be on pearl diving and as a

trading post until they found oil in the 1960's. The museum is in the Al Fahidi Fort. Above is a picture of a tower on the fort. This is the oldest tower in Dubai. The boats are dhows which were used in the Dubai Creek. (Today, they use dhows as water taxis and tourism opportunities along the creek.) The museum is located in "old Dubai", which still looks very "old" and more of what you expect when you think of a city in the Middle East (in terms of building types, cleanliness, etc...) After our afternoon at the museum we went to Charlie's (a hotel pub) for a traditional "bar food" dinner.