My Recent Trip To Bahrain

I just spent about a week in the tiny gulf Island –state of Bahrain, and I thought I should share my experience.

This was to be to be my first trip to the Middle East & my thinking was that I would meet an extremely intolerant religious regime with burqa-clad women et al . I couldn’t have been further from the truth. The experience really opened my eyes into how these countries are run.

FLIGHT

Since I had to go through Dubai, my Emirates flight path was thus Lagos-Dubai-Manama, the in-flight entertainment has been the best so far, similar to my initial experience with SAA,I had the opportunity over the 2 legs to watch some Oscar –nominated films (which I never had the time to go to cinemas here to watch or was too conscious to buy the pirated DVDs on the streets),like Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men, Ratatouille; okay this films are a bit outdated now, note: I ain’t a film person.


BAHRAIN

Its actually a tiny island(other islands like Muharraq join to make up the country), one thing I noticed was that the approach to the airport(located on Muharraq) was largely on water & it almost seemed as if the sea could be viewed from virtually any tall building I got into.

English is largely spoken, almost all notices, car plate numbers, signages and adverts are in both English &Arabic. The landscape reminds me of a cross between Abuja and East London. 

Their women are beautiful (when u get to see them ) and there is a really large immigrant working population, with Indians taking a large chunk this. And I think there exists opportunities for Nigerians in a number of fields, because sadly I didn’t come across one, same cannot be said about Dubai however.

The currency is the Bahraini Dinar (BD) another interesting thing about this region is that their currencies are easily interchanged, you could pay for something in Bahrain with Dubai (UAE) currency Dirhams and get your change in Riyadhs (Saudi currency). I also learnt to write 1-10 in Arabic, simple as ABC  .

The hotel was great, I only noticed some funny toilet customs; there was this strange looking stuff beside my WC toilet in my hotel room and almost all the urinals at the office had hoses. I also notice used tissues in some urinals later, quite strange, but no probs

All in all, though I went for office stuff, it was quite an experience, and it brings to six (6), the number of countries outside Africa that I have either visited or transited; UK, Germany, France, Turkey (transit),UAE(transit),Bahrain.

Cheers

Thanks for sharing your visit with us.

Do show some pictures if you have any 

I sat next to a guy going there 3wks ago . He was going for business. Funny huh?

O serious o !

I've been on the road lately.

I only took nighttime pictures from my hotel room with my camera phone & they are larger than 400kb.

Not to worry,I'll be relocating there in a few weeks ,
Cheers,

A few more

 

Bros,thats not enough, anybody can post that pics you posted.Cos google can definitely search that out.But post us your personal pics in Bahrain,