Dubai
Friday, August 27th, 2010Dubai, the state of the United Emirates, located on the southern coast of the Arabian Sea coast. Dubai has grown in the past 20 years, a huge plot of desert and oil platforms for a major tourist center. Oil before the main source of production and income, but around 1990 it was decided that Dubai should become a tourist trap.
Dubai is home to the highest man-made structure in the world ever built, the Burj Dubai. He has been under construction since 2004 and is scheduled for completion in December 2009. The building will have 162 stories worth at 2,684 feet in height and will be posted the fastest elevators in the world (traveling at a speed of 59 meters per second).
Dubai is a place where the world’s only seven star luxury resort, hotel Burj Al Arab. It stands on an artificial island off Jumeirah Beach. The structure was built to resemble the sail boats, because they wanted something original, to serve as an icon for Dubai. Its construction began in 1994, was completed in 1999 and in 1053 feet is the second tallest building in the world are used only as a hotel.
Not far from the shore in the Gulf Palm Jumeirah, an artificial island, formed in the form of a palm. The form consists of a trunk, 16 leaves and broken C-shaped pier, which is surrounded by palm trees. It is the smallest one of the three Palm Islands. Palm Jumeirah many activities to offer the traveler, such as going to Aquaventure-water park, swimming with dolphins in the Gulf of dolphins, as well as to explore the underwater maze of passages and tunnels Lost cameras.
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