Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Kiss & Tell

 
Nose kissing is the traditional Emirati male greeting and common sight around town.

3 comments:

Leif Hagen September 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM  

Big cultural difference! Cool photo of an interesting poster!

neena maiya (guyana gyal) September 18, 2009 at 9:56 PM  

As a child I thought it was the Eskimos who did this and we children would greet each other, 'Let's rub noses like the Eskimoses.'

AbuDhabiDailyPhotographer September 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM  

I remember rubbing noses like Eskimos at school - Great fun!

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