Creek Park
Waterside park hugging the creek that launched Dubai's trading empire, with a cable car and botanical gardens.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Creek Park in Dubai traces Dubai Creek's centuries as the city's only port, from dhow captains and pearl divers to the free-trade policies that kept merchants here after the pearl market collapsed. It follows the story up to the park's opening in 1994, exactly a century after those reforms. Listen for how the cable car ride over the treetops echoes the water traffic that once filled the creek below.
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