Originally Posted by ken kotecha
We are in the middle of an RTW. We plan to be in Dubai Feb/March 2007 and are very much interested in making side trips from there to some of the other countries in the neighborhood. We would appreciate any specific ideas some of you experienced travelers may have. We love to use this informative and helpful forum.
Ken
Um, unless you have special interests in the region, Dubai is "it" for the region. There are lots of ways to indulge yourself. I'll bet you've never seen girls in wet full-veil burkas in a pool next to really cute (imo) bikini-clad middle-eastern girls, nor snow-skied in a desert.
Also, it's more expensive to fly *from* DXB to most other places in the region than vice versa, since it's a rich country with many less well-off neighbors.
And finally, acknowledging that we all travel for different reasons, some of us find the Maldives a very pleasant spot, but it's much, much cheaper and quicker from CMB if you'll also be there. Otherwise, perhaps a hop over to Kuwait, to tell the folks back home you were "almost" in the Iraqi war zone?