Dubai - February 2019

Taking advantage of Emirates Airlines "free of charge" offer, we stayed over in Dubai for a few days on our way home. It was a fun stop. We enjoyed our 3 days in Dubai immensely.

When your first UBER ride from the airport was a fancy Mercedes with its driver in black suit and tie, you know you come to one of the richest and fastest growing economic city in the world!

Our hotel, the Sky Hotel Apartments is in Deira, an older and more traditional part of the city. It's only a short walk to a metro station. We took hop-on hop-off bus tour for two full days in Dubai. It was a great way to see around Dubai. The bus tour included a visit to Dubai Museum as well as two cruises: Dubai Marina and Dubai Creek. We also visited the beautiful Atlantis Palm Jumeriah, the amazing Burj Al Arab, the famous Mall of Emirates and Dubai Mall where the tallest building of the world, the Burk Khalifa is located. 

Atlantis Palm Jumeirah, hotel and resort

The famous hotel: Burj Al Arab-located on its own island

The Mall of the Emirates

Ski lifts in the Mall of the Emirates - You can ski in the mall in all seasons

Fashionable window display in the Mall of the Emirates

Trendy boutique in the Mall of the Emirates

Marina Cruising : Dubai Marina is an artificial canal in Dubai. Cruising the marina is a great way to relax and to view the luxury ambience, yachts and skyscrapers that make Dubai famous.

Waiting for the Marina cruise

 

View of the Jumeira Mosque from the Marina cruise

Can't miss the skyscraper view!

Dubai Marina 

View of Jumeirah Beach Residence 

The world's tallest building: The Burj Khalifa with 160+ stories at the Dubai Mall
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From the top deck of the hop-on hop-off bus, we craned our necks to marvel the amazing modern architecture of these skyscrapers among the tallest in the world.

View of skyscraper sky

Trade center First

Dubai - Business Bay

Dubai-Trade Center First

New Building -Trade Center Second


The Grand Mosque

Ain Dubai (Dubai eye)-Tallest ferris wheel in the world when opens in late 2020


Dubai Museum and Al Fahidi Fort

Al Fahidi Fort

Dubai Museum and Al Fahidi Fort

Dubai Fort

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Cruising Dubai Creek: The Creek area of Dubai is more like the old traditional Dubai with the dhow boats transporting goods on the shores to be exported to Iran. It separates the city from Deira to the north and Bur Dubai to the south.

Waiting for Dubai Creek cruise

Dubai Creek Harbor

Cruising Dubai Creek

Dubai Creek with lots of dhow boats in the harbor

Dubai Creek

The spice and gold Souks

Spice souk


DANCING WATER FOUNTAIN: The Burj Khalifa water dance is the must-do sightseeing  we don't want to miss when visiting Dubai. The dancing fountain is just beside the Dubai Mall on a man made Burj Khalifa Lake, is the biggest choregraphed fountain in the world. We had dinner at one of the restaurants overlooking the lake and the Burj Khalifa. It was a wonderful water dance performance of the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa !

Dubai Mall ready for the fountain dance

Dubai Mall


The Burj Khalifa

Dubai is an amazing city. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to this cosmopolitan city. It's a safe, clean and fun city to play tourists. We were hoping to go to Abu Dhabi for the day. But Dubai kept us busy with many things to see and do. We'll have to take a rain check on Abu Dhabi. Would love to visit this part of the world again!.    

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