Hello Easter - Dubai - 17th - 24th April 2019

THE ROCS TRAVEL DIFFERENCE

What sets ROCS Travel apart? At ROCS Travel, we strive at every turn to redefine the notion of what a unforgettable vacation is all about. This is because our approach towards travel is completely different. Travel is our passion, we strive to give the best of what every destination has to offer, and our love for this fantastic destination guarantees you, our client peace of mind that when opting to travel with ROCS will never get it wrong. In a lifetime of travelling, I assure you that I have stayed in countless hotels around the world, enough to know that a hotel is far more than a comfortable place to rest at the end of a busy day. A great hotel is an extension to your destination where authentic style, modern conveniences and warm hospitality come together. ROCS Travel offers you all this and more. We are proud to showcase the best in the world and where a better destination to exhibit this commitment than with Dubai. ROCS Travel has been hand-picking ideal properties in Dubai for the past 20 years. Such outstanding properties have always come with a guarantee of unbeatable packages prices. In tandem to this in the past 20 years ROCS Travel has been awarded as Emirates Airline’s Top Passenger Sales Agent and has been the top selling leisure tour operator to Dubai year on year too. Making extraordinary holidays to this outstanding destination is our pride and joy and may I add that our expertise is not focused solely on luxury, yet we offer group tour departures at the most affordable prices, family holidays to attract both the young and old, unforgettable honeymoons, terrific shopping holidays and even romantic celebrations to name a few. If you have never considered Dubai before, please do take our word for it. Dubai will simply impress you making you want to return back time and time again, after all like I have been doing since 1998. I vouch to offer authenticity beyond the reach of any other travel company in Malta. RACHEL VELLA DIRECTOR ROCS GROUP

DUBAI

cooked balls of chickpeas with herbs (falafel) and plenty of fish. Goat meat may also be on the menu, but no pork, in accordance with Muslim beliefs. Alcohol is tolerated and drinking is possible in the plentiful hotel bars and restaurants. CULTURE Culture in Dubai is rooted in Islamic traditions. Emirati men tend to dress in traditional dishdasha or khandura (long white shirt-dress), with ghutra (a white headdress) and agal (a rope worn to keep the ghutra in place), while women tend to wear an abaya (a long black cloak), with a sheyla or hijab (a scarf used to wrap around the face and head). The most religious time of the year is Ramadan, when Muslims fast for approximately a month and a festival atmosphere can be found in the evening when the locals break their fast. But as well as the minarets of mosques, you will also see temples and churches. The new opera house in downtown is now open, and a great opportunity to experiance HISTORY The human history of Dubai dates back to the bronze age (2500BC) when nomadic cattle herders are first thought to have settled in the area. A couple of millennia later and Dubai was still little more than a small fishing settlement

until members of the Bani Yas tribe, led by the Maktoum Family, settled at the mouth of the creek in 1833. The creek was a natural harbour and Dubai soon became a centre for the fishing, pearling and sea trade. The population was later buoyed by the lure of tax-free living attracting traders from the Indian subcontinent. Oil was discovered in the 1950s and the first cargo left Dubai in 1969. In 1971, the six emirates agreed a Federal Constitution, gained independence from Britain becoming the United Arab Emirates, with Ras Al Khaimah joining the following year to form the UAE as it is today.

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