The day I landed in Dubai, I have been hearing about this tallest hotel of the world - Burj Al Arab. Supposedly it is the only 7 star hotel. Everytime when I used to pass by the Sheikh Zayed road or the Jumeirah road, I used to look at this magnificent piece of architecture with awe and used to click its photograph from my car window. When we visited the Jumeirah beach, we clicked more pics with Burj in the background rather than having sea in background.
I decided to visit this place after I saw the documentary which described how much effort went into construction of this hotel and how its so different from other buildings. Its built a few hundred metres inside the sea in the shape of sail which looks so simple and marvelous but it took great engineering minds to build it this way.
So, Finally this weekend our entire IIMB gang thought of hitting the Skyview bar of this hotel which is suspended 250 metres above the sea level and gives you a feeling as if its just hanging in the air without any support. Having a champagne at such a place was an awesome experience and we just kept on watching Dubai from this height with admiration. This was the costliest champagne that I have had in my life and I am sure I am not breaking this record for a decade. Also, this bar holds a Guinness book of records for serving the most expensive cocktail for 27,321 AED.
As usual we had lot of pics in the restaurant and enjoyed our champagne to the fullest. Also then we spent a lot of time in the beautiful lobby and had many pics there too (afterall we had to recover our cost :P).
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Dubai
As the title says, I am going to talk about Dubai in this blog. So, what brings me here: my summer internship which is part of curriculum at IIMB.
I came to UAE in April and after spending two weeks in Abu Dhabi, I came to the new luxury tourist hot spot of world - Dubai. Its a beautiful city which has both sea as well as deserts. To me it seems like India with US infrastructure. Yea, you can disagree with this but it comes from my limited exposure to only a few countries. Now, why I made such a statement was because you will find lot of Indians everywhere. There are so many Indian restaurants also around that you will hardly feel home sick because of food. Infrastructure is amazing. Awesome roads, wonderful bus/cab service, tall buildings, 24 hours power, big cars all around. I am surprised that still there is no railways/metro in this country.
Dubai has been always in news for its skyline. Leading from the front is Burj Dubai: tallest building in world and Burj Al Arab: tallest hotel in world and supposedly the only 7 star hotel. Hopefully, I will visit it this week. Apart from these there are many other great buildings in variety of shapes. Seems like people dont like making simple and small buildings here and all the architectural experiments are conducted here. The city has so many malls and they have hardly left out any brand. But one good thing in the malls here is they are based on some central theme and are not boring like malls in other countries. In a single mall you would find acquarium, zoo etc and in other you will find a place of skiing with a temperature of -4 degrees. Some malls have the traditional Arabic look and some look like Egyptian pyramids. Bottomline, you will never get bored in these malls as you will get chance to click so many photos and numerous opportunities of window shopping.
Weather here is hot as expected but you hardly feel it as everything is air conditioned. I also got a chance to go for the desert safari where I did Dune bashing in the car which was thrilling. We had the dinner in the camp and the icing on the cake was the Belle Dance. As desired by the rulers here, this place is rapidly growing as the favoured tourist spot and you will find many tourists at every place and numbers are expected to grow as Dubai is growing and coming up with more interesting options for the tourists.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bansal.vikas84/Dubai#
I came to UAE in April and after spending two weeks in Abu Dhabi, I came to the new luxury tourist hot spot of world - Dubai. Its a beautiful city which has both sea as well as deserts. To me it seems like India with US infrastructure. Yea, you can disagree with this but it comes from my limited exposure to only a few countries. Now, why I made such a statement was because you will find lot of Indians everywhere. There are so many Indian restaurants also around that you will hardly feel home sick because of food. Infrastructure is amazing. Awesome roads, wonderful bus/cab service, tall buildings, 24 hours power, big cars all around. I am surprised that still there is no railways/metro in this country.
Dubai has been always in news for its skyline. Leading from the front is Burj Dubai: tallest building in world and Burj Al Arab: tallest hotel in world and supposedly the only 7 star hotel. Hopefully, I will visit it this week. Apart from these there are many other great buildings in variety of shapes. Seems like people dont like making simple and small buildings here and all the architectural experiments are conducted here. The city has so many malls and they have hardly left out any brand. But one good thing in the malls here is they are based on some central theme and are not boring like malls in other countries. In a single mall you would find acquarium, zoo etc and in other you will find a place of skiing with a temperature of -4 degrees. Some malls have the traditional Arabic look and some look like Egyptian pyramids. Bottomline, you will never get bored in these malls as you will get chance to click so many photos and numerous opportunities of window shopping.
Weather here is hot as expected but you hardly feel it as everything is air conditioned. I also got a chance to go for the desert safari where I did Dune bashing in the car which was thrilling. We had the dinner in the camp and the icing on the cake was the Belle Dance. As desired by the rulers here, this place is rapidly growing as the favoured tourist spot and you will find many tourists at every place and numbers are expected to grow as Dubai is growing and coming up with more interesting options for the tourists.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bansal.vikas84/Dubai#
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