Spartan Accommodations in the Emirates is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in the Emirates, particularly in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I stayed there for only 3 days, but they were intense. The oddities refer mainly to accommodation, which to limit the very high expenses in those areas, I chose among the cheapest. This interlude in the Emirates was within a trip to Oman to which I devote a separate podcast.

Please note that the audio is in Italian.

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If you would like to listen to more episodes of the podcast called oddities on the road, this is the page with all the ones published so far.

The articles with photos from which the podcast episode is taken: Spartan Accommodations in the Emirates

In this link there is an in-depth look at the ski slope in the mall in Dubai. The photo below captures it from behind a glass window. I would have even gone inside, but the ticket is pretty expensive, so I saw it while eating ice cream at a small table, and from above. I would say that experience alone would fall among one of the oddities in travel.

Finally in the following links you can find the articles (with photos) already written about this trip (so also Oman)

• It never rains in Oman anyway – travel to Oman and the Emirates
• Travel mishaps, risk of sleeping under a bridge in Abu Dhabi (where there are no bridges)
• Visiting Abu Dhabi, a raptor for seat neighbor on the bus.
• Visiting Dubai, reception in bed

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