Lonely Planet
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This book is an ideal stop-over guide to Dubai, which attracts over six million arrivals per year. It highlights the city's myriad shopping options, souqs, malls and shopping centres; is the only Dubai guide with detailed fold-out colour maps; and has concise, opinionated reviews of the best of the city's hip eateries. The United Arab Emirates is the cheapest place in the Middle East to buy electronics. The Palm resort is visible from outer space. Dubai has the worlds only seven-star hotel, Burj al-Arab, where each suite has its own private butler. Dubai's multicultural population (more than three-quarters of the population are expats) means restaurants of every description, from Russian to Indo-Pakistani. Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, a member of Dubai's ruling family, won the UAEs first ever Olympic medal (gold, of course) at the Athens Olympics, and features in this guide.
This guide was researched and written with travel sustainability in mind, and promotes the best eco-accredited businesses in Western Australia. Local and expert authors, are born and bred here, including biologist Tim Flannery. There is comprehensive coverage of 4 Wheel Drive roads and tracks that criss-cross this vast area. There is great new use of colour. There are long-term accommodation options and there is excellent coverage of seasonal work. Around the southwest, cars and campervans are the modes of choice for most travellers, who are catered for with accommodation options in most small towns - so they can stop when they feel like it.
This guide to Syria and Lebanon offers political, historical and cultural information as well as tips on how to get involved in an archaeological dig and details of souqs, mosques and Crusader castles.