Bahrain, when defined is said as the relationship with the water. Being an official Kingdom of Bahrain, it is a small island country located in Gulf of Persia, which ruled by Al Khalifa royal Family. Bahrain is an archipelago of 33 islands out of which the largest is the Bahrain Island. The island has the length of 55 kilometres and is 18 kilometres broad. The island boasts its amazing beauty by being a neighbor of the well-known places. Saudi Arabia is located to the western direction and is linked to the Bahrain through the King Fahd Causeway.
The King Fahd Causeway was formally opened on November 25, 1986 and from the southeast direction, Qatar lies across the Gulf of Bahrain. Bahrain started developing as a modernized country after the discovery of oil in the year 1932. Today, the country has become a well-known tourist destination in the Arab Countries and in the world. This island offers a mix of attractions to the tourist who throngs to enjoy its beauty to the fullest. Being an island country, it also offers hills that have an elevation of up 134 metres, above the sea level. The summer season in Bahrain is too hot as the Persian Gulf waters started providing low levels of moisture supply.
The country occasionally described as the Middle East lite, as it blends the modern infrastructure with the distinctiveness of an Arabic Gulf. There are many attractions to get captivated, but what are more fascinating are the waters around the country. When it comes about tourism, Bahrain has never made anyone feel bored. More than 8 million tourists visit Bahrain every year out of which most of them are from the nearby Arab states. Still, there are rising number of tourists coming from outside the country because of the increasing popularity and awareness of the Kingdom’s heritage. The country is also renowned for its advanced profile about the Bahrain International F1 Circuit.
This kingdom is an excellent example of the Arab world with its culture, gulf glitz, and the archaeological inheritance of 5,000 years of civilization. The Bahrain Island is home to the castles that comprise Qalat Al Bahrain that has been listed under the UNESCO World Heritage Site. While exploring the country, you should not skip to visit the Bahrain National Museum. This museum has amazing collection of artifacts from the history of the country that dates back to the first human inhabitants of the island, which is some 9,000 years ago.
The development of Bahrain is rapidly increasing day by day. 
The new harbour named Bahrain Financial Harbour of Manama is also rising like a Neptune by making exceptional buildings like the Dual Towers, which seems like holding back the sea. Well, land reclamation has become the fashion in Gulf like in Doha and Muscat, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Various ambitious projects have been planned and the same is continuously incorporating to make the places magnificent and attractive.
Those who love to explore the history and traditional realm must visit Bahrain and fulfill their dreams. You will get plenty of these types of attractions. Besides the museum, you have traditional houses of Muharraq where you will find the unusual burial mounds at Sar. Well, there are many different sites located in the country. All you need to do is to pack your bags and rush towards its beautiful settings of natural and man-made attractions.
Mixed with the indigenous population [of Manamah] are numerous strangers and settlers, some of whom have been established here for many generations back, attracted from other lands by the profits of either commerce or the pearl fishery, and still retaining more or less the physiognomy and garb of their native countries.
Thus the gay-coloured dress of the southern Persian, the saffron-stained vest of Oman, the white robe of Nejed, and the striped gown of Bagdad, are often to be seen mingling with the light garments of Bahreyn, its blue and red turban, its white silk-fringed cloth worn Banian fashion round the waist, and its frock-like overall; while a small but unmistakable colony of Indians, merchants by profession, and mainly from Guzerat, Cutch, and their vicinity, keep up here all their peculiarities of costume and manner, and live among the motley crowd, ‘among them, but not of them’.
—WG Palgrave, Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia .