Dubai

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Yupieeeee! So here we are in Dubai! It's our last day here and we've picked few shots for you as promised. So sit back, relax and join us in our trip!

Our friends Julia & Leszek have taken a very good care of us. We got few tips for what to visit and during a week managed to see most all of the attractions of the city.
First day after a morning swim we went for a "BIG Bus Tour". It's a great way to know the city, the bus went along numerous attractions of Dubai doing stops on the way so we were able to hop on and off anytime we wanted. We started at the Dubai Mall with the artificial ski slope inside :). Than we saw the construction site of very impressive Burj Dubai, currently the highest building in the world - 818 m. Then the bus brought us to our last stop, the Dubai Museum where we were able to see a bit of city history and its incredible development for over the last years. In the evening the boat trip across Dubai Creek brought us to the old part of the city inhabited now mostly by Hindi. For a moment we had an impression that almost everyone wants to sell us "branded" watches, bags and so on... but after a while we got used to it. The old part of the city is much different to what we use to think when saying: Dubai. Never ending rows of small shops with people selling almost everything, all this accompanied by singing from mosques.

Over next days we saw:
· Atlantis Aquarium in the Atlantis Hotel on the top of Jumeirah Palm - famous man made island in the shape of a palm tree. You don't realize its shape when you're on it, but it's visible from air and even from space!
· 5+ star Hotel Burj Al Arab "sail" shaped building - known as a 7 star here ;) - with Federer's favourte tennis court on the top
· Madinath Jumeirah Souk, local market newly build with restaurants and cafe bars done a bit like a small Venice
· Sandy beaches and emerald color see...
Dubai is very green, they use huge amount of water to stop the desert taking its tooll. It's warm, but not too hot now.
Being so close to the desert, we could not miss the opportunity to see it and went for Jeep Safari. The ride in big, white Land Cruisers over the orange dunes was very exciting, especially for someone who never went off rode in the 4x4 weal drive. There was a couple of stops to see the camel breeding farm, watch the sunset and for a traditional barbecue at the end.

Dubai is a very interesting place to see - so different Arabic culture, people originally dressed, mosques, tasty food, and recently also very tall buildings. The construction work here goes on even during the nighttime and there's a constant machine roar in the background.
As the temperatures here hits almost 50C during the summer, winter time with around 20-25C was a perfect moment for a visit.
And of course Dubai is a shopper’s paradise we could not resist and got 2 pairs of flip-flops for half the price :)

OK, that's it for now - next stop Singapore!