Private tour in Manama Abbas Ali A
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Abbas Ali A.
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I am an energetic and resourceful tourist guide with over eighteen years of experience accompanying clients on trips in Bahrain and to various locations in different parts of the world especially to Saudi Arabia and Sultanate of Oman. I am adept at performing research in an effort to make optimal travel plans. I'm experienced in organizing itineraries according to time frames, weather and special events. I am dedicated to providing clients with the best customer service and travel experience possible. I started doing tourist guiding since I was a teenager to improve my English speaking skills and feel more proud using my new daily English vocabulary so I used to complete my school homeworks and directly ride my bike to one of many archeological and historical sight seeing in order to meet expatriates and deliver to them all the informations about these places. I used to do my own researches about these sites from sources found in public libraries in Bahrain because in that time there wasn't any internet in 80's & 90's and I return back with more confident and happiness that I can read from the eyes of my clients, and of course sometimes with some tips. And Since I am a native Bahraini national I have always enjoyed partaking in various activities, picking up new skills, and truly testing the limits of what I can do, and since I was born in a small village in Muharraq the second largest island in the country which most people there are fishermen and pearl divers so for that reason I like to do all types of aqua sports tours especially about the history of pearl industry in the past before oil was discovered in Bahrain in 1931 as a first country in the Arabian Gulf I can also take my clients to travel between the old houses and routs of the pearling Path (site owned by the UNESCO since 2012) that its walls can tell hundreds of stories about that period in history when all our countrie's economy in all gulf countries comes from Pearl Diving. One more thing I can share with my clients as I am from Muharraq is the food because Muharraq food's recipes is the most tastey in Bahrain and my mom is also from Muharraq and I learnt from her a lot of how to prepare the most famous local delesious dishes wether main dishes or desserts recipes and my clients always appreciate coming with me at home and I share with them how to cook Bahraini traditional food with the help of my wife. Also because the climate in Bahrain is considered as a desert climate I enjoy camping, falconery and flora and fauna because in periods between November and April when the weather is bearable, I know most animals, birds, and insects names, breading seasons etc. And also I know most names of the different desrt plants, when to harvest, and wether they are good for human consumption as food or poisonous and can share some of the local traditional uses for these plants as medicine especially for external uses e. g. low back pain, joints pains etc. I look forward to welcoming all to Bahrain so that I may teach our tourists a thing or two about my country, its people's culture and its history that goes to more than 5000 years deep in histoy when Dilmun Civilization was there ca. 2600 BCE until 400 AD, and see the remains that they left for us especially in the Qala'at AlBahrain Site that is listed in the UNESCO as one of the international Heritage sites since 2005 and also the A'ali Royal Burial Mounds that Bahrain have more than 80, 000 mounds and grave including the skeletons of the kings who ruled the Dilmun Civilization between 2500 BCE until about 1700 BCE and this site is also enlisted in the UNESCO since 2019. * Diploma in Accounting and bookkeeping from Manama High School 1989 - Bahrain * High Diploma in Hospitality Industry Engineering Systems from American Hotel & Motel Association 1994 - Michigan, United States * National Diploma in Electronic Servicing and Microprocessors from City & Guilds of London Institute. 1991-1994 - London, UK * Professional Local Tourist Guide License from Ministry of Tourism in Bahrain since 2007 - Bahrain * Diploma in Fishery and Aquaculture from National Taiwan University 2019 - Taipei, Taiwan * Tourist Guiding Certification from WTGFA 2018 - Nicosia, Cyprus. * Certification of train the new tourist guides from WFTGA 2018 - Nicosia, Cyprus. * Holy Qura'an recitation Riwayat Hafs from Aasim Arabic phonetic certificate 1995 - Bahrain * Team Leading Certificate from DHL Express - Dubai, UAE * Line Training Certificate from DHL Express - Dubai, UAE * Dangerous Goods Certificate in lifting and handling on Cargo & passenger Aircrafts from EK (Eimirates Sky Cargo Airlines) 2005-2013 Dubai * Only During the holy month of Ramadhan I cannot commence any tour before 10:00 a.m. * Inside Alfateh Grand Mosque and/or Alhasan Mosque another tourist guide will do the guiding as per the rules from the mosques' authorities.
Have a question or want to customize this tour? Message Abbas Ali A.
Did you know you can still find a village in Bahrain that makes pottery in the same way as it has been for over 5000 years? Have you heard about the mysterious Tree of Life? More than 440 years old, and somehow growing in a land with no water, only oil and gas? Did you know that Bahrain began as a land of simple scattered villages, working in pearl diving and fishing? On my tour we will see the different sides of Bahrain: ancient burial mounds from 2600-1700 BCE, the site of the first oil well, a royal camel farm and even the modern International Circuit for the F1.
- Pick up from hotel / Residence - Drive to pottery making in A'ali village - Then and at the same village will ride or even walk between the ancient Royal Burial Mounds there are about 18 burial mounds left in this village that goes to 5000 BCE. - Then will drive for about 25 minutes to one of the Royal Family Camel Farm. - Then will have a 20 minutes photo stop at the Bahrain International circuit F1 track - Then will be heading to rural desert areas to stay away from the modern life and only see the Oil and Gas factories that are scattered almost everywhere in the southeastern desert side of the island and to see the first oil well in the gulf in Bahrain 1931. - Then from there will drive to the tree of life that is still living since more than 430 years. - Then drive back to hotel which will take about 45 minutes. Please note this tour can be customized. Use the 'message guide' button to contact me for a customized to
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I have two cars and I will be the driver and guide: TOYOTA CAMRY 2017 MAX 4 PAX CHEVROLET TRAVERSE 2014 MAX 7 PAX
Al Hidd, Muharraq Governorate, Bahrain
Airport: ,Cruise: ,ByGuide: Al Fateh Grand Mosque parking lot.
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