Dubai - The City of Gold!

Yesterday, at last, we visited the world famous 'Gold Souk' (read: Gold Market), for which Dubai is named 'The City of Gold'! Gold prices have dropped a bit around the world and in Dubai it has come below the 100-mark, for first time after 1-2 months! Current gold rate is AED 99.50 (approx 1095 INR) There are so many stores lined up and so many 5 floors buildings within which there are so many gold shops - all sporting different varieties and designs of gold ornaments, right from pendants, bangles, chains to huge necklaces!! Some of them are so tempting to go for but the M-factor always reminds of to stay limited :-) We wanted to buy couple of bangles and we roamed around for sometime and then we zeroed on some stores like Joyalukkas, Damas, Pure Gold, Al Haseena, Atlas, Sky Jewellery. Some of the designs in every store was impressive but at the end of the day, making charges differs from each store to another. Big brands = High making charges, pattern follows... So, we went to a good shop called Al Haseena which promised us of good designs and good making charges also. After nearly 1.5 hours of our search, my dear darling wife could finally select two designs/pairs of bangles - one for my dearest dear mom and one for my dearest dear wife! :-)