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My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 12:48pm On Mar 26, 2008 |
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pirated DVDs on the streets),like Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men, Ratatouille; okay this films are a bit outdated now, note: I ain’t a film person.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 |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by illusion2: 7:11pm On Mar 28, 2008 |
Nice one, thanks for the gist. Nigerians full Dubai sha ! |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Arnold1(m): 12:12am On Mar 29, 2008 |
Thanks for sharing your visit with us. Do show some pictures if you have any |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by hymen(f): 4:58pm On Apr 02, 2008 |
This is really nice ,I enjoyed reading,but please which part of the world is this ? Thanks |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by iice(f): 4:56pm On Apr 03, 2008 |
Yes pictures! |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Nobody: 4:58pm On Apr 03, 2008 |
iice:man no get camera jare |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by iice(f): 5:00pm On Apr 03, 2008 |
Dont say that! Haba i wan see pictures Ok even if na thru camera for phone |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Nobody: 5:10pm On Apr 03, 2008 |
iice: hmmm. . .maybe his phone got stolen while he was checking out the beautiful women |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by chika98: 12:43am On Apr 09, 2008 |
I sat next to a guy going there 3wks ago . He was going for business. Funny huh? |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 3:50pm On Apr 10, 2008 |
chika98:Funny, . . . . . . . |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 4:01pm On Apr 10, 2008 |
morenike09: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, |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 8:08pm On Jun 23, 2008 |
Got back here a couple of weeks now,got some pics,more to come
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Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 8:09pm On Jun 23, 2008 |
A few more
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Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 8:11pm On Jun 23, 2008 |
more
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Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 8:12pm On Jun 23, 2008 |
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Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 7:45am On Jun 24, 2008 |
Finally,util someone makes a comment :
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Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by marjson(m): 12:52pm On Jun 24, 2008 |
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, |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 5:58pm On Jun 25, 2008 |
U wish |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by noblegas2(m): 9:07pm On Aug 02, 2009 |
Jairzinho: @ Jairzinho, lol, Nice trip, de Kingdom of Bahrain is indeed beautiful, dont mind some peeps here, afterall u made d trip & u enjoyed i, if i wer u, i wuldnt even post 1 Picture, if anybody does not bliv U, i guess it doesnt affect u in anyway, just play along jare, am in Qatar, hola me wen u com back to Bahrain & lets cruise a lil bit. |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 2:54pm On Sep 06, 2009 |
hey noblegas1,I just came across your post,lets get in tch. . . . . I'll email you. |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by noblegas2(m): 4:14pm On Sep 06, 2009 |
Jairzinho:aiite men, ma email is johnny_fleet@yahoo.com |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 7:18pm On Sep 06, 2009 |
okay man |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by mgbogo: 9:46pm On Sep 06, 2009 |
I may be there in a few weeks time,how is the night life |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by Jairzinho(m): 12:41pm On Sep 12, 2009 |
Not bad. . . depending on what u looking for |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by debokaz(m): 7:11pm On Sep 13, 2009 |
How can I get visa to qatar or oman? |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by feasy1(m): 7:31am On Sep 15, 2009 |
debokaz: A visit visa right? |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by tunde300us(m): 6:19pm On Oct 23, 2009 |
Was in qatar some years back,then the airport was just going to be expanded,but u wont believe that we were not allowed in cos they said some Nigerians were caught recently for robbing a bank in qatar and that means all other Nigerians were thieves. I was so devastated but i know it wasnt the end of my life.U wont believe we were treated like criminals and they were asking if we know how to shoot guns etc and if we were all a gang of thieves from Nigeria,all of us were returned home and since then i have been doin ma stuff here But i will still like to visit dat country some day |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by ikeyman00(m): 9:34pm On Oct 23, 2009 |
^^^^ did they checked as well to see if u strapped some bomb on |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by tunde300us(m): 10:50pm On Oct 23, 2009 |
Sure bet they did more than that,some guys luggage were torned apart and the guy only saw it when we got back to lagos. |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by illusion2: 5:59am On Oct 24, 2009 |
tunde300us:Sorry o ! Thats why we need to get an effective government in naija. |
Re: My Recent Trip To Bahrain by orshybay(m): 6:36pm On Jun 15, 2018 |
I am glad to read this post.. I want to visit, but i have initially gathered tat the language is arabic, good to know english is common there. I should process my visit. |
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