Outside the Bahrain national heritage museum
Read it carefullly.
Street market in Bahrain.
We did not receive nearly as warm a welcome in Qatar. This is a couple from Las Vegas we hung out with running the immigration gauntlet.
Ron goes native in Qatar with a head covering imported from India.
We went looking for the "real" Qatar. This is what we found.
On to Abu Dhabi. Of all the places in the UAE we visited, this is the one we'd most like to return to.
The camels were feeling ornery.
He's getting away!
Ron went dune bashing
Getting stuck is all part of the fun.
Whoa!
Whee!
Sometimes it's not so much fun. It took half an hour to get this guy unstuck.
Can there be anything cuter than a baby camel?
These are some of the nicer facilities.
The world's third largest mosque, still under construction. The carpet inside is 70,000 square feet, the world's largest. It cost over $8M.
Beautiful works of art