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Water bus in Dubai

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Dubai got a long history in water transport. In those days before the existance of United arab emirates, people used to reach dubai in wooden boats. Even after the rapid development goods are still ferried to neighbouring countries like iran in this traditional wooden boat. Last week afte r dropping reju in her workplace, me and kids went straight to dubai creek just for spending time in the waterfront . suddenly I noticed that we were close to Al Seef abra station. I went straight to the ticketing office greeted by a kabyan lady. She said that there is a water bus (interior of this boat looks same as a bus so they called water bus ) after 20 minutes. So I took one ticket costing 4 dhs for 2 way journey. The water bus strats from Dubai creek park-al seef - Burdubai. I took the lap between al seef to Bur dubai. The bus is having a seating capacity of 36 fully airconditioned. The journey from Al seef to Burdubai takes nearly 20 minutes. On our way we can see many traditional building