Introduction

For our english speaking friends we have compiled some hints to understand some parts of our internet pages even if they do not speak any german.

The Journey

In early January 2010 we made a ship cruise in the arabian gulf. We visited:

• Dubai
• Abu Dhabi
• Bahrain and
• Muscat (Oman)

Details

The page  Übersicht  shows the track of our journey. Clicking on a place on the map leads to the first page of the place (Dubai (1), Abu Dhabi (1))

Page  Märchen  describes the financial problems and show the planned artifical islands. Only the islands in black color on the map are complete.

Page  Burj Khalifa  talkes about of the worlds tallest building and that the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi made available 30 billions EURO to help Dubai out of the financial problems.

Page  Rundflug  shows pictures taken from a flight over the city.

This page  Reichtum  shows the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world. Furthermore pictures of the Emirates Palace (5-star hotel), the shopping center Marina Mall and the splendoured boulevard Corniche are desplayed.

Page  Museum  displays pictures of a little museum.

Pictures of the Heritage Village can be found on this page:  Heritage)  .

A dia show about planned gigantic projects can be find here:  Projekte  .

This page  Aufstrebend)  shows pictures from Manama, the capital of Bahrain.

On the page  Öl  pictures can be found of the first oil well in the world, the desert and the tree of live.

Traditional and modern race sport can be find on page  Rennsport  .

Page  Oman  shows pictures from the city of Muscat, the capital of Oman as well of the famous Al-Zawawi mosque

On page  Alt-Muscat  pictures can be found of Old Muscat and the Al-Alam palace.

Impressions of the Mutrah Souq can be find on this page  Souk  .

Google Earth

If a blue logo like the one shown below occurs on a page the location can be viewed when clicking on the blue logo.

A click on the blue logo below shows all visited and described places of our journey:

The places are marked with a yellow marker.

Clicking on a yellow marker opens a little window.

A click on siehe/view Homepage opens our internet page where the place is described (unfortunately in german, but pictures may give an impression of the place).