Bedouin Heritage Village by xiquinho
On a large site near to the breakwater is the city?s brand new Bedouin Heritage Village. It is designed to represent the city as it was before the advent of oil. If you can?t make it out on to safari this is the only way to get any sort of feel for traditional Arabian life in the city. The reproduction of a Bedouin encampment is accompanied with an artificial, ?genuine? souk.There are also some reproductions of the more permanent homes that formed the town before it was concreted over in the 1970s - it?s hard to believe that just 40 short years ago these mud-brick fishermen?s houses were the standard housing for many of Abu Dhabi?s citizens.
