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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 |
If someone likes an intensive tour, Arab should avoid wide berth. There are no monuments. When I asked a taxi driver to show me something old in Ajman, drove tens of minutes and finally stopped with a squeal of tires: - "Look, this is a sight! - Where? - I could not find anything. - Here! I saw, who was maybe 50 years old and was once probably some road checkpoints. In turn, the inhabitants of Dubai's laugh is that the oldest buildings ... Madinat shopping center.
Indeed, it looks impressive. Bitches with gold, carpets, fabrics, lots of lovely bars and restaurants, all cut channels along which boats sail. Such a small Venice. But it was founded just a few years ago! Arab, in addition to beautiful beaches overlooking the Arabian Gulf (in September the water is about 35 degrees!) Do not have a specially beautiful landscapes. A trip to the desert lies in the fact that he was going to rope in a large highway vehicles. At some point, there is a large gate with painted quad - gateway to the desert. In a few U.S. dollars you can rent a quad bike and take a "Rally Paris - Dakar. But be careful not to fall into another vehicle, because much less traffic than on the highway. Or you can buy for about $ 50. so. safari - driving off-road vehicle in the dunes. Lots of tourists everywhere. Is it worth it to go to Arab, therefore, undergo cumbersome procedures of acquiring a visa for more than 300 USD (if you do not leave the travel agency, we must have an invitation from a private individual or a picture)? Of course! Nowhere in the world there is no such accumulation of ancient architecture and engineering. Nowhere in such a mass scale is not applied simple rule - wealth is beating his eyes. The monumental buildings have to shine with gold, marble, colored illumination. There is no modesty in the price. The idea is to show the whole world rich Arab. Arab is best visited from December to March, because the temperature is then that, as during the hot summer (I was in September). When I got out after six-hour flight from Vienna (almost an hour over the Dubai in air traffic) and drew the air, me speechless. It was so hot and humid that literally lungs. - As I stand here two weeks? Already in the cab, which in turn was like a refrigerator, leading her Pakistani calmed me. - Hot? It is only 42 degrees. It was hot in July, the temperature reached 50 degrees. Accustomed to you. Become accustomed. Patent in the heat proved to avoid leaving out. The air-conditioned hotel quickly air-conditioned taxi, and then to the air-conditioned museums, Souks, shopping malls ... And in the early afternoon, when the largest wave of heat sinks, the beach of gray sand and palm trees. Arab indeed possible to visit without leaving the taxi (the price of gasoline comparable with mineral water).
"Horse mandatory" begins with the eighth wonder of the world - an artificial palm-shaped island called Palm Dżumajra. The land does not look impressive - reminds giant, five-covered pier buildings. Is a magnificent view at night from the plane. Pilot deliberately turned over the island, we kept the end of their stay in the memory of one thousand lights contracting in the trunk, leaves and bulwark defending the waters of the Persian Gulf. Means to stretch wide streets, and grow around the luxury hotels, apartment buildings, shops and offices. "Leaves" are overgrown houses. If we buy one of them, our neighbor might be David Beckham or Michael Jackson ... The whole has to be ready just in two years. Since the investment has been a commercial success, created the next two islands - Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deir, which will be larger than Manhattan! However, the investor - Nakheel Properties - this did not stop. Even more challenging engineering project is the World, or dump a few miles from the shore atoll islands 300, which in advance is to remind the globe. You will not only get on a plane or boats. Apparently one third of islands already has buyers (prices from $ 10 million.)
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