Dubai Update: Eid Mubarak!

Eid Mubarak! Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha! The UAE, being a Muslim country, will naturally have a long festive period (and ahem, …holidays) to coincide with this occasion. China State Construction’s holidays for the Middle East head office starts last Friday and ends today (Tuesday) – 5 long wonderful days. China State Emirates Road Project’s holiday is officially 3 days (Sunday to Tuesday). Unofficially, our gracious boss has agreed to give us TWO peaceful days – Monday, yesterday, and Sunday OR Tuesday, depending on our choice (we picked Sunday). That’s the reason why I’m in the office today, and logging in this entry, since nothing much’s happening out at site today. For the past 2 days of holidays, we decided to explore the Musandam Peninsula, the finger of land poking out into the Arabian Gulf towards Iran, like a gateway to the Gulf. Dry and sparsely populated, Musandam, a part of the Sultanate of Oman is all sea creeks flanked by crumbling barren mountains, with a fort here and a fishing village there.

Here’s a sample picture, will post more once we’ve downloaded the lot into the computer.


Khor Ash-Sham, Musandam, Oman