Late post

 Hello! I am sorry I haven’t been posting a lot because I went on safari and the wifi was horrible. A better blog to read will be my mom’s because she posts every day. 

This post is from Dubai. 

Hello! I went on a tour in Dubai for the market and it was very informative. I went to the market before the tour and it was nice to get some extra information. For example, the “real cashmere “ scarfs are fake which didn’t really surprise me. Another example is how they will overprice things so much ($300 when it is worth $50) and be very mad when you bargain to a reasonable price. I have  also noticed how they speak better english than in Asia so they can be more stubborn for getting you to buy things. I had to take a boat across the water to get to the market. The boats were small  motorized rowboats that can hold about 15 people. The market smelled very strongly of spices which makes sense because almost all of the shops are spice stores. There were also these crystals that when you put it in water is smelled very minty and burned the inside of my nose.

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