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Two days in Abu Dhabi

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(This post contains affiliate links, for more information read this  privacy policy ) Abu Dhabi is the perfect location to plan a little stopover when you are on your way to your final destination. I also love flying with Etihad. When I was heading to South Korea last month, I actually found a great flight that was stopping over there, which I turned into two days in Abu Dhabi. It’s nice to split up long flights into two shorter trips. Believe it or not, but it was actually cheaper to stopover for two days in Abu Dhabi than to continue my flight straight away. I actually had almost three days, I arrived early in the morning and left late at night But the following activities can easily fit into just two days, as I didn’t really do a lot on my last day apart from lying at the beach. Now let’s get into it, this is how I spent two days in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Day 1 My flight arrived at 6am in the morning and it was the first time that m...

Amazing Rajasthan Cities that Will Make You Feel Royal

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Doesn’t Rajasthan just sound like a place that’s royal? Before I even went there I just kept envisioning the scene in Aladdin (yes, I know that’s not where it was based) where he’s parading through the desert and up to the palace with elephants, camels, and peacocks. Well, even if it’s not really where Aladdin is based, everything else I thought I’d see was, which completely fulfilled my life-long dream of feeling like Jasmine, even if just for a few days. That’s because Rajasthan is known as the land of the Royals in India, and the area is officially considered a State, which lies just west of Agra and the Taj Mahal, and consists of several different main cities. My plan was to travel from New Delhi, down to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, then across Rajasthan before heading South to Mumbai, and looking back at it now, I seriously wish I had more time to spend there! Rajasthan was a completely different world than the one I experienced first in New Delhi, and I remember it being like ...