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| Dubai Gold Souk |
Souk is an Arabic word meaning market. In Dubai.there are many souk (market) you can find. And, one of the famous is Dubai Gold Souk. The gold souk is is one of the main hubs for gold trading and retailing in the UAE. It is a market where mainly gold jewelry is sold in all its various forms. You will find diamond, precious stone and plain gold jewelries. They have gold bars, coins, designer / branded jewelry as well.
It is approximately a 20 minutes drive from the Dubai airport and near the Dubai creek. You can either take a taxi or bus. You may also get there from the airport by metro and get off at the AL RAS metro station. At the Union station, you must go the green line instead of red line.
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| Dubai Creek |
Please note that yellow gold is not all the color that you can see in Gold Souk.
You will be fascinated of all the glitters and almost going blind looking at all the gold at the gold souk .
The Gold souk area has plenty to offer to locals and tourists. Aside from being the heart of jewelry stores. It is famous for its spice souk where a dearth of loose spices are to be found to stores selling cloth , perfumes, oud, cutlery and crockery stores, stationery, scarves, abayas, electronic stores, laces, toys, footwear and others.
There are also plenty of small cafeterias, ice cream shops like Baskin Robbins and famous shawarma booths to be found at nearly every corner for your refreshment when you get tired of looking around the souk.
You can also explore and walk to the creek, take the famous boat ride (Abra) crossing the opposite side of Dubai called Bur Dubai.
Below are some of the pictures taken at Dubai Gold Souk:
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| At Dubai Gold Souk... |
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| Gold... |
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| Gold, gold... |
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| And more gold... Amazing! |
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| Inside the gold souk. |
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| Going to gold souk. |
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| Abra boat |
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| with my friend Sam at Abra ride experience.. |
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| Alighting at Bur Dubai. |
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