Bahraini Hospitality

My school group has been in Bahrain for about almost a week now and I have been amazed with the hospitality. Sure, our professor has been coming here for thirty years and knows half of the island, but the level of hospitality people have shown is unprecedented. We've visited about a dozen companies and every single one has been ecstatic to have us. We've received tons of gifts and everyone has been very welcoming. Our group has even been featured in the national newspaper twice. Among our company visits, we've seen a number of forts, a camel farm, a handful of mosques, the royal golf club, a horse race and a few other things. Further, we've been invited to dine in a mosque and have had meals at night in the desert and in Bahraini homes in small groups. It has been really interesting to see this side of the Middle East and realize how different it is from what we read in the newspaper and see on CNN.

Dinner at the Desert Camp