The Heritage and Diving Village are living museums which will transport visitors back in time and enable them to discover Dubai’s past. This place must be included in the Dubai tours package as it is one of the best Dubai attractions. The Heritage Village has weavers, potters and other craftsmen while the Diving Village gives insight about the history of Dubai’s pearling industry. The ancient heritage village, located in the Shindagah area is also a famous travel spot where potters and weavers display their crafts.
The Diving village is famous for its evenings of entertainment and open air cafeterias and forms part of an ambitious plan to convert the entire place into a cultural domain to get a glimpse of ancient Dubai. This place has many shops that sell handicrafts. Also no entrance fee is collected.
Dubai’s Heritage and Diving Village provides a clear insight about Dubai’s past when smuggling and pearl diving were the tiny emirate’s main revenues. The sand-colored houses of the village with traditional wind towers otherwise called bastikiya are in contrast to the modern high rise buildings along Dubai Creek. The main aim of the Heritage Village is to focus on the UAE’s local history, trading activities and its maritime past. The place also has many handicraft stores, shops and exhibitions. You will also get a chance to ride a camel.
The Diving Village has a superb collection of pictures of pearl divers of Dubai and pearl-diving artefacts as well as marine life. Visitors to Dubai can find these black and white photos interesting as it reflects the difficult life led by the divers much before scuba diving was invented.
One important feature of the Heritage village is its unique barsati homes. Visitors can enjoy typical traditional Arabian cuisine in an outdoor kitchen attached to this home. Barsati home, originally means, one room situated in the terrace to keep away from pressure for more space in city homes. Barsati home is considered an effective housing strategy for the city dwellers as it implements the concept of incremental spacing and runs parallel to the mass housing programs in the city. You can also get your memento from the small souk before leaving the heritage village. You can also know about the fantastic cultural past of Dubai including their mode of living and their development to the modern and vibrant city stage by stage. The artifacts and displays are educative and informative to visitors yearning to know about the unique past of Dubai.
You can also refer to the Diving Village as a museum of maritime activities and fishing traditions in erstwhile UAE. Diving Village showcases wooden boats or dhows, and pearling boats which cannot be seen by the city dweller these days. Your diving village journey package in Dubai tours will include free demonstrations of pearl diving. Pearl diving is considered to be a dangerous profession even when the sea water is safe and warm. In ancient times, most of the local people were engaged in this profession which is now becoming extinct.
You can definitely make your Sightseeing in Dubai more culture oriented and adventurous by visiting Heritage and Diving Village, Dubai. Those traveling to Dubai must see the Dubai Heritage & Diving Village which is a superb place to understand the more traditional aspects of Dubai life that are missing from the modern city. The Village is the best place to buy some unique artifacts and to taste authentic Arabian cuisine for those visiting Dubai.