The Juffair Grand Hotel
A 4-star boutique & business hotel with spacious and refurbished guest rooms offering in-room amenities like: internet access, coffee- tea maker, mineral water bottles, newspaper, iron and iron board. A gym, rooftop swimming pool, restaurants and bars to suit every taste are just some of the additional amenities to make your stay an exceptional one. This property was earlier named Best Western Juffair Hotel.
Manama, Bahrain
The Kingdom of Bahrain is an archipelago of low lying islands located in the Arabian Gulf off the Eastern shore of Saudi Arabia.
Frequently referred to as the pearl of the Gulf, Bahrain has a history of civilizations that date back more than 5,000 years. The ancient site of the immortal land of Dilmun, and a religious centre for ancient Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians at different times, Bahrain’s strategic location has ensured that it maintain a heritage of pluralism and diversity.
With centuries upon centuries of human habitation packed into one compact site, many legends have enveloped the land of Bahrain. One such example is the historic reference to Bahrain as the Island of Eternity – a result of the multitude of ancient burial grounds found throughout the island, before modern archaeological findings explained them to be a legacy of the Dilmun era.
The writings of the ancient Sumerians refer to Dilmun as a pure and sacred place in which sickness and death do not exist – a land like paradise full of sweet water springs. Bahrain does in fact have freshwater artesian and under seabed springs, rich in minerals and especially fluoride, known locally as sweet water. These have sustained life here since the Ubaid civilization of Neolithic times 6000 years ago.
With centuries upon centuries of human habitation packed into one compact site, many legends have enveloped the land of Bahrain. One such example is the historic reference to Bahrain as the Island of Eternity – a result of the multitude of ancient burial grounds found throughout the island, before modern archaeological findings explained them to be a legacy of the Dilmun era.
The writings of the ancient Sumerians refer to Dilmun as a pure and sacred place in which sickness and death do not exist – a land like paradise full of sweet water springs. Bahrain does in fact have freshwater artesian and under seabed springs, rich in minerals and especially fluoride, known locally as sweet water. These have sustained life here since the Ubaid civilization of Neolithic times 6000 years ago. The sweet water springs may be the basis for the legend of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian epic about a quest for immortality from the flower of life (the pearl) which leads to Dilmun, the “land of two seas”.