HOPPING THE BORDERS

There is a certain thrill and excitement that comes with traveling to new places.

Seasoned travelers are familiar with the various regions, as well as the best strategy for packing for a trip of anytime. BUT YA, SURELY I AM NOT ONE OF A SEASON TRAVELER. I am just a traveler with a certain kind of thrilling experiences of different places in the world. 

But many families and young travelers may be overwhelmed, wondering what they’ll need to survive. But that is something kind of a old mentality which is certainly not used in this kind of era. Anyway let’s come to the main topic. 

         

   SO EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO CONVEY YOU IS MY EXPIRIENCE OF LIVING AND TRAVELLING DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

So let’s start with first country United Arab Emirates

The Emirate whose name gives me a lot of excitement. Ye its Dubai.

More than half of my life has been spent there. My memories with this country is just unforgettable. The culture of this country is its own pride itself. 

 In the year 2011, I first time went to Dubai, UAE and was stuck in a pure Filipino hotel with a damn pure Filipino cuisine. Yeah, it sounds interesting, but it's not. Me a pure North Indian 7-year-old boy sitting in such a situation staring that food which I never tasted. Something really new for me and my parents.

In Dubai more than people of 150 nationalities like India, Pakistan, Sri lanka , Europe, Yemen and etc. live together like a single family. Behind our society there was a sand area where we all friends from different nations play and enjoyed discussing each other’s culture.

UAE gave me a profit of learning a new language ARABIC. I first found it difficult but later I started loving this language.

The all seven years, having same schedule was never a boredom in such an exciting country. The skyscrapers were the main attraction of that country that to in a night time was just like heaven.  The Desert Safari was one of my favorite experience in Dubai where your car climbs on sand dunes giving you a roller coaster feeling and ya how can I forget the kanddora dance, one of the most famous dance of UAE in which a person dances and just revolves without any stoppage.

The country only did not have artificial beauty but it also included natural beauty like it had many parks, botanical gardens, beaches and main attraction of the natural beauty was the Miracle garden which I loved a lot. A garden full of different types of flowers made into different structures and though made it my favorite.

 There were malls like Dubai mall which was considered as world’s biggest mall and I have always enjoyed there and I used to go there with my family on Friday. The Mall of Emirates and many more malls have won my heart.

MY EDUCATION IN UAE

I used to go to one of the finest schools of Dubai ‘THE INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL’. I know it’s hard to believe an Indian School in an Arabic subcontinent. I made many and many friends there to interact in an unknown country. But I can never say this country unknown because this country has given me everything I wanted.

The Dubai Under Water zoo was an amazing place to visit where u can see many aquatic animals under aquarium and the first time I visited here was when I was in class 2 and finally the main attraction of Dubai, the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa. It consists of approx. 170 floors where u can only travel till 124th floor. The view from Burj Khalifa during night time was awesome. The first time when I went to Burj Khalifa was a very frightening moment for me.

CUSINE OF UAE

There was a culture of drinking an Arabic coffee Kawa. It even became my favorite. People prefer food without much spices and preferred light food.

Dishes like humus, falafel, pita bread and etc. were preferred by the people and me too.

My favorite Arabic dish was Falafel which was a very prominent dish of UAE and ya how can i forget my favorite Arabic restaurant Aroos Damascus (Syrian Restaurant). It was one of the finest restaurant in Dubai and ya of course it’s hard to believe that a Syrian restaurant almost ruling the cuisine of Dubai.

The 7 years just passed in a blink of an eye, but yeah it was awesome.

The story is yet not over.... the thriller is left

The day we were saying final goodbye to Dubai was though very emotional but the chapter is till now not closed. The problem arrived at the airport where due to government issues my visa could not be canceled. We had around 30 minutes to flight take of but this horror thing made us blocked. We never even thought about this but ya at the last moment it was granted leading to a very happy ending

   GET READY FOR MY SECOND BLOG I WILL POST…………………………. Journey continuous..Europe,Far East,China, USA and many more