Dubai Shopping Festival part IV

 On January 31st, 2012 after we went to Ibn Battuta Mall for the second time, we continued our journey to Dubai Marina Mall since these two places are near each other. But to remind you, if you want to go to Dubai Marina Mall, I advice you to charge your ticket to the station just before Dubai Marina station. It is because we took metro to Dubai Marina station and unfortunately we had to continue walking about 500 meters or even more to go to the mall. T_T But if you wish to see the view of Dubai Marina, then you can purchase your metro ticket to Dubai Marina station instead. Otherwise, take the station before it.

Dubai Marina Mall

On February 2nd, 2012 we decided to go to Mirdif City Center. The mall is quite far because we took metro to the second last station and then rode the bus for about 15minutes before reaching the destination.

At Mirdif. Not Cardiff =_=

The coffee shop

And we found this while we were wandering in the mall. Hahaha.!

The iFLY

teaser ;)

Tat taraaaaaaaaaaa.! He looked so damn excited :D

With 195 dirham, you can fly twice at iFLY. Before entering the fly area, you have to attend a short course in a classroom about the techniques and hand signs that are important and commonly use during sky diving. In the first fly, you'll apply those skills that have been told in the classroom under supervision of a trainer. As for the second time of flying, the trainer will bring you fly high up like in the picture above. But not too high la since you aren't an expert. Hahaha :p And if you wish to fly again for the third time, you can add only 70 dirham.

Byebye Mirdif

Does DSF entry ends here?
Noooo. It will be continue in the next one.
Peace.!  :D



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Dubai Shopping Festival part III

In DSF entry part III, I'll only story about a mall named Ibn Battuta Mall. The mall has six divisions and each of them represents the countries or placec that the greatest traveler Ibn Battuta had visited. And we actually took 2 consecutive days to finish exploring this mall. So big yet so damn beautiful :)

Ibn Battuta Metro Station

Ibn Battuta Mall

At the mall entrance

Inside it.

Ibn Battuta statue

Where the foods at :D

The beautiful interior design

Tunisia and Andalusia court

Persia and India court

Indian style of decoration

Namaste :))

It also has the Egypt court.!

It really looks like a studio. A big studio. Innit?

At China court.!

The ship

The travels of Ibn Battuta

Al-Quran and the replica of his ship

The continents that he traveled

To India and China

I set out alone....swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I.... quit all my dear ones, female and male and forsook my home as birds forsake their nest..

                                           

                                                                                                                         ~Ibn Battuta 

to be continue in DSF part IV. Hehe..

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Dubai Shopping Festival part II

From second day, we started to visit most of the famous malls in Dubai. Oh, wait, can we visit a mall??? Hahaha.. Okay, the first mall we went for window shopping was Mall of Emirates as it is the nearest one to our place and only took about 15 minutes by walking.

 

M.O.E is a big mall indeed. It locates most of the famous brands all over the world. For the shopaholics, M.O.E is a must to go especially during Dubai Shopping Festival. But come earlier as you can if you don't want your stuffs being steal by others. Hihi. In Mall of Emirates also, you can go skiing at Ski Dubai. The price for the ticket differs according to the time length, experience and facilities you want to use. As for the first timer, it will cost you about 200 dirham if I'm not mistaken. For more information, please visit Ski Dubai website here *suddenly I feel like a Ski Dubai promoter -_- *

An area specially made for designer boutiques

MOE in the morning

Entrance to buy ticket for Ski Dubai.

But, we didn't buy the ticket to go inside. Hahaha. Only watched from the outside.

Sigh. Next time we come to Dubai, we definitely will go inside.

The only thing I bought at M.O.E that day. Dunkin Donut. I bought them. Lots of them. Tee hee..

In the third day, we spent the whole day at Deira City Center. Its quite far to go as the Metro took 30 minutes journey from Mall of Emirates Metro station to Deira City Center Metro station.The mall is like any other mall that you have seen before, nothing special I think. Thus, the only picture I took was... as below ;

The highway in front of Deira City Center. Do you notice Burj Khalifa there in the picture? ;)

Hmm. Nothing much to talk about these two malls, innit?
Will update about DSF part III. The upcoming mall is beautiful.
So, stay tune.


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Dubai Shopping Festival part I

I've been to Dubai recently during my winter breaks for two weeks, from January 27th until February 9th, 2012. It was my first time to visit Dubai. I went there with a friend of mine and stayed at his sister's house in Al-Barsha 1. We flew from Borg El-Arab International Airport at 930 am and arrived at Dubai International Airport around 3pm. Dubai has nice weather, neither too hot nor too cold even though it actually in winter season.

Hello Dubai.!

From Airport Terminal 1, we took metro to go to Mall of Emirates since it near to Al-Barsha 1.

About 15 stations to go meh T__T

 At 530 pm, after we had our dinner, without wasting much time, we headed to Global Village in Dubai Land by taxi. It opens from 4 pm until 12 am. It such a big big big place since it has about 39 pavilions there. Unfortunately, we only managed to go some of them because we were running out of time. And you may need two consecutive days if you intend to finish window shopping at all of the pavilions.

Kyrgyzstan, Europe, Iran and of course, Malaysia pavilion.!

Sis Nurul and me. Busy selecting cotton materials. At the end, not buying any of them. :D

Phil bil dil hey hindustani. Hehehe..

Africa pavilion. Has lotsa wooden doll (innit?) and yeah, the legendary Bob Marley hat

Kuwait and Tanglung country, China

Food areas

Got a small theme park, and not to miss to try Dubai traditional food.! Yummyy.!

DSF part I ends here. Wait for another update of DSF, will ya?

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Newbie

I'm kinda newbie in this kind of blogging. I'll post my traveling experience soonnnnnnnn. Hope it will be interesting to read.


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