Bedu And Breakfast: Traditional Hospitality At Dubai Hotels
Having risen dramatically from the desert sands of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai’s towering monoliths are a real life equivalent to those of the emerald city of Oz. Once little more than a sleepy fishing town, Dubai can now lay claim to the world’s tallest building, town-sized shopping malls and enormous man-made islands, and Dubai Hotels have become the envy of the world. In fact, many visitors can find Dubai’s vertiginous towers and monumental scale a little overwhelming, but it is still possible to detect some of Dubai’s original character.
The oldest building in the city and home to its most important museum, the Al Fahidi Fort is the best place to start if you want to find out what the city was like before commercialisation (BC). You can see photos of daily life in the city before it was transformed by oil wealth and there are recreations of old houses, the souk and the lives of pearl divers.
But to really get a feel for traditional Emirati life, you should leave the comfort and luxury of Dubai Hotels behind and head along the rugged coastline or inland to see the harshly beautiful desert landscape. The cultural heritage of the Emirates has been formed by the desert and oases that make up one of the harshest terrains on Earth. Though only vestiges of the native Bedu are traceable, tourists can learn about Emirati life firsthand by going on a desert safari. Here you can learn to ride camels and Arabian horses and perhaps spend a night under a dazzling array of stars – making the excesses of the city feel very far away. It should be possible to arrange a desert safari at the majority of Dubai Hotels and, since holidaymakers routinely wax lyrical about their experiences, it’s something that’s well worth checking out.
The most famous traditional pastime of the Emirati people, and one that remains popular to this day, is falconry. In the dunes and waddies of the desert, magnificent birds of prey are used for hunting, sport and even pest control. You can be taken into the desert to learn how birds are trained and watch with baited breath while they hunt. Even the most high-tech mall in Dubai, has little in the way of excitement when compared with seeing a hawk bear down on its prey at over 100 km an hour.
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