{"id":232,"date":"2016-08-13T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store2\/uncategorized\/postcards-from-the-u-a-e\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T10:15:39","slug":"postcards-from-the-u-a-e","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/postcards-from-abroad\/postcards-from-the-u-a-e","title":{"rendered":"Postcards From The U.A.E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arising from <em>Travels Abroad<\/em>, is the <strong>Postcards from Abroad Series<\/strong>. <em>Travels Abroad<\/em> is essentially a chatty travel journal, crammed full of colour photos. But there were other lovely black-and-white photos from those trips, which didn\u2019t fit into the format of that book. This gave rise to four companion books, including this one, <strong>Postcards From The U.A.E: A visual celebration, in black-and-white, of this land of rapid growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2013 and 2015, Max and Sue Hoppe visited their son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters in Dubai, To be honest, it was not a place they fancied visiting, and only a strong desire to see the family prompted them to go there. They perceived it to be a paradise for those who like bling, fake snow and designer shopping, none of which held any appeal for them. They would prefer a tent under a bush, in the back-of-beyond, to a five-star hotel in a busy city. As it turned out, they experienced both!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, their kids have discovered a completely different side to the Emirates than the one usually seen by tourists, and were delighted to share this with them.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cpostcards\u201d show some lesser-known but wonderful aspects of the Emirates, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Riding Arabian horses through the dunes at sunrise and sunset<\/li>\n<li>Exploring the forbidding Al Hajar Mountains at Ras-al-Khaimah in Fujairah<\/li>\n<li>Watching racing camels being trained at sunrise<\/li>\n<li>Visiting the art and museum hub of Sharjah<\/li>\n<li>Watching a humane and entertaining style of bull fighting in Fujairah<\/li>\n<li>Exploring ancient mud-built mosques and forts in the desert<\/li>\n<li>Taking a water-taxi over the Creek in Bur Dubai, the old city<\/li>\n<li>Seeing how traditional Arabian architecture integrates into modern buildings, and yes, a visit to the Jumeira Palm and Burj Khalifa.<\/li>\n<li>A visit to a haunted fishing village at sunset<\/li>\n<li>Buying Pakistani bread, made to order in a tandoor oven<\/li>\n<li>A road-trip covering 5 of the 7 Emirates in one afternoon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These lovely black-and-white images will fill you with a desire to look beyond the surface, in this fascinating part of the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visual celebration of a nation that has shown unprecedented growth and modernity, but which still values the ancient ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16,191],"product_tag":[148,152,151,110,153,100,99,104,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-232","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-print-books","7":"product_cat-postcards-from-abroad","8":"product_tag-armchair-travel","9":"product_tag-best-places-to-visit","10":"product_tag-dubai","11":"product_tag-emirates","12":"product_tag-horse-riding","13":"product_tag-non-fiction","14":"product_tag-photography","15":"product_tag-travel-tourism","16":"product_tag-uae","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elgeckopublishing.co.za\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}