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                <title>Dubai Museum at the Al Fahidi Fort</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you want to up your understanding of the history and culture, then a short trip round the Dubai Museum at the Al Fahidi Fort will really put everything into context for you – you can then impress your hosts with your knowledge.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bastakia</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you get bored or blinded by the bling, visit the recently restored Bastakia area of Dubai down by the Creek. Here you will find the only decent domestic architecture in the city, built about 100 years ago by Iranian and Arab merchants from the other side of the Gulf.<br><br>Apart from pleasure for it’s own sake, a familiarity with Bastakia can be a useful conversation starter. Not only does it demonstrate interest in Dubai’s heritage, but a fair number of the city’s movers and shakers over the age of 40 will have grown up in Bastakia. On more than one occasion, the recollection of those days has opened up these essentially private people.]]></description>
                
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