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Get A Whiff of the Real Dubai

Dubai, as everybody knows, is going crazy with building and creating questionably useful things like the world's biggest shopping mall, the tallest building, the ability to ski in the desert and so on. What most of us forget is that Dubai also existed before its boom, and when you visit, the most enjoyable part of your stay might be in finding the real Dubai.

Last weekend's UK Times gave a view on what authentic Dubai could be: the smells. And that's not the shopping mall smells or the the 7-star hotel smells, but what you can find in the original souks and marketplaces usually hidden away from tourists.

Apparently the smell of the spice market is real Dubai, as is the odor of the fish and meat souks, and apparently even the gold market has a special smell--who would've thought?

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[Photo: Simon Loxham]