A visit to old Dubai

We gave ourselves a dose of old Dubai today, we went to the Dubai Museum, which resides in a 18th century fort. It was a small museum but it gave us an insight to the very humble beginnings of early Dubai, where the Bedouins roamed the deserts with their camels, the once flourishing pearl diving industry and the discovery of oil. Sera was a bit unnerved by the darkness of the museum (which was probably trying to simulate old Dubai) Yas, who was asleep in the beginning, was very curious and wanted to tour the museum by herself. We eventually arrived at the pearl diving industry exhibit and I realised that Sera was without shoes. She ran to me excitedly, hands spilling with sand ... she finally found something that interested her! Yup, there was literally sand (but of course) throughout the entire museum. That's Dubai, afterall.

It's almost impossible to get a shot of Yas as she is always on the move. So here's one of her, in the morning, walking excitedly to our car

A traditional house back in those days. The ladder leads to an outdoor bed. The tall structure above the hut works as a cooling device during the hot summers.

At the pearl diving exhibition. Sera and sand - she has to take off her shoes when she sees sand, stand in the sand and then touch it ...

A happy and awfully dirty museum visitor ... and of course, Yas can't resist doing the same