Museum of Pearl Diving, Manama

Advantages: Modern and airy, well displayed exhibits, very cheap entry price
Disadvantages: None really, apart from cafe usually shut

...is a recreation of an old Bahrain village, reached by crossing a bridge. You need to go inside and get your entrance ticket before visiting it though. The museum has a large foyer with various rooms of displays leading off it, and exhibits are displayed in English and Arabic. It is on two floors with a lift available if you need it. Our favourites were the Hall of Graves, which has a full-size recreation of a burial site as well as lots of interesting artefacts, and the Customs & Traditions area upstairs. This has a recreation of the old Souq with various shops, and lots of displays with life size models showing traditional life in Bahrain, including lots of pearl fishing, which has sadly disappeared. There are displays showing the Dilmun civilisation, the spread of Islam, Bahrain natural history and an art gallery. There is also a cafe... Read review

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Advantages: Warm, hot, fascinating place to visit
Disadvantages: Very humid ! 9 hour flight !

...for special meetings / dinners, providing transfers, organising incentives, touring local museums, arranging flights and so on. - A number of different excursions can be organised for incentive groups or as delegate spouse programmes, such as : 'Magical Capital', 'Culture & Religion', 'Treasure Island', Fascinating Journey Into The Past', 'Desert Miracle', 'Excitement At The Arabian Horse Race'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What to see & do: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For a relatively small country, Bahrain packs in an amazingly large number of tourist attractions, such as, Oil Museum, Currency Museum, Bahrain National Museum, A'ali Pottery & Burial Mounds, Basket weaving, Saar Settlement, Barbar Temple, Desert Camp, Heritage Festival, Riffa Fort, Dhow Building, Museum of Pearls and Diving, Bahrain Fort, Arad Fort, Shaikh Isa bin Ali House and many more... Read review

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Advantages: Loads of wrecks, varied and interesting diving on offer
Disadvantages: Cold, far north

...As I live in Shetland and also visit Orkney when the chance arises, I’ve written an opinion mainly about the diving in both groups of islands. As a bit of background I’ve done about 130 dives in Shetland and 30 in Orkney. There’s also some tourist information at the end, because most people wouldn’t come this far purely to dive. The diving up here on the edge of the map is fantastic, and there's plenty to see and do as well, so please read on and see what you think. THE DIVING - SHETLAND Shetland, if you weren’t aware, is situated to the extreme far north of Scotland, 50 miles to the North of Orkney. Although the mainland is only 70 miles long, it has about a thousand of miles of coastline, due to the number of Voes (mini fjords) and smaller islands, over 100 in total. An interesting fact I... Read review

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