Dubai Diaries: The Kites Jumeirah Beach




The last day of our trip we started by dipping ourselves at the Kite Jumeirah Beach. The Mall of Emirates (MoE) metro station is the nearest to this beach from where you can take a cab to the beach. Being an Indian I really appreciated the cleanliness of this beach (also it gave the feel of a typical foreign beach with pristine blue water to my kid’s delight & foreigners in bikinis to my husband’s :P). It is recommended that you visit here either early morning or evening because it gets very hot during the day. 
Earlier lots of kids used to fly Kites here, hence the name. However lately this has reduced and the beach is now famous for food trucks & Iron Man training.



Viraaj at Food Truck

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