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Chapter 2 - Day Two - Exploring Old Dubai

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 Day two started early. Since the hotel had given us some sweets and a slice of chocolate mousse cake, we stayed in and made some coffee and had that as our "healthy breakfast". It was Sunday and being their first day of the week, we had planned to go to the old part of town, the Souk district. Souk is Market. and they have several ones, The Old Souk, The Spice Souk, The Gold Souk.  In order to get there, we took the metro. DH20.00 gave each of us a daily pass to move around the city as much as we liked it, and we liked that. First stop was the old Souk, very narrow streets, a lot of spices on stands and plenty of stuff to see. Very touristy, but still very interesting. We were a little overwhelmed with all the vendors coming to get you, but thats how they make a living, right.  Once we were done in this Souk, we wanted to go the Gold Souk, and it was on the other side of the river. as we walked by the river bank, we noticed some boats that worked as a water taxi, from on...

Chapter 1 - Day One - Miami to Dubai

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First of all let me make a small introduction on who we are. I am the Carnivore, a Brazilian man who met the most beautiful Cuban American one can think of, and for my surprise at the beginning, a Vegetarian. After more than 3 years together we decided to finally get married and then go on the most epic trip together as our honeymoon. It was a small wedding for our most close friends, but that is not the interesting part. So our adventure starts on Feb 11th, 2022. Our flight was scheduled to leave Miami on the Friday night at 8:10pm and to arrive in Dubai at 7:20pm the next day.  We had some luggage since we were going to be away for 2 weeks, and this is what we had. We had booked at Emirates and a couple of days before our departure we got offered an upgrade for a fraction of the price and how glad i was we took it. We arrived at MIA early, around 5:30PM, where we were dropped off by our friend Victor. Checked in and headed to the gate where we anxiously awaited to board what woul...