We’re heading to Malaysia for a three week trip over Christmas and we’ve got a few days layover in Abu Dhabi.
Honestly it is not somewhere I would ever have visited, but we were able to add a free two night stopover when flying to Kuala Lumpur with Ethihad.
We still get the experience the glitzy and shininess of Christmas in our hotel!
We stayed in the very pleasant Southern Sun Abu Dhabi hotel.
Before oil was discovered in the 1950s, the region was home to Bedouin tribes, pearl divers, fishermen, and date farmers who lived in harmony with the desert and the sea.
The discovery of oil brought extraordinary prosperity, allowing the city to develop into a rather bland landscape of sleek skyscrapers.
They may have transformed a small coastal settlement into one of the world’s most expensive, and boring, cities!
The most fun I had was in the covered walkways with the changing coloured lights!
Here are a few snaps – but honestly, I was so sapped by the heat, and bored by the soullessness of the place, that I didn’t really enjoy it at all!
The best bit was limping back to our lovely rooftop pool to wash the dust and heat off!
