We arrived very early in the morning and immediately began a city tour included in the tour package. Above is Dubai's most iconic hotel, the Burj al-Arab. We had a view of this from our hotel, One of Dubai's least iconic hotel.
Much of Dubai is built on landfill. They are completing full build-out of a palm-shaped development and in the distance you can see their newest landfill development that will be a series of islands in the shape of the world. It would be fascinating to know Dubai's business plan as they evidently have run out of oil. It appears from the casual tourist's viewpoint that they have positioned Dubai to be the go-to shopping destination for the wealthy from the Arabian countries as well as others from Europe and Africa looking for lots of shopping and nice beaches.
Building projects continue all over the city/kingdom.
Desalinization plants provide the vast majority of Dubai's water supply.
Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building (for now), was built in 6 years and tops out at828 meters! They describe it as the world's first vertical city and claim the technology is there to build something twice as tall.
Dubai Museum below.
These dhows carry all sorts of goods to ports in the Middle East and Africa where large container ships can't go.
Crossing the "creek" is by bridge, metro,or abra (water taxi). We rode an abra to the spice souk below.
This man flashed a peace sign as I stood with my camera so I snapped. Picture.
The gold souk below.
We took a desert safari at sunset. It was kind of hokey but it did get us out in the desert.
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