April 18 and 19, 2016 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates – A fantastic time overnight where we breakfasted in the sail building (Burj Al Arab) and had the world cruise formal dinner party at the Armani Hotel in the world’s tallest building Burj Kaalif. Besides a tour of the Palm and city – Great Souk, Bazaar!
Arrival at the amazing port facilities
We did some damage at this shop!!!! Below – the QE2 is in the port being converted to a hotel.
The current and former (father) rulers
Burj (Tower) Al Arab (Sail Hotel with the Jumaira shorter hotel (same owner)
The entrance to the island on which it stands
Above – the “slit” is a restaurant and below – the “plate” is the helicopter landing place and where Tiger Woods shot a golf ball and Roger Federrer played tennis. We had breakfast on the floor just below the helipad.
The waterfall at the entrance and Rolls Royce, behind which is a camel!
The sail from the outside and inside as well as the lobby.
Restaurants
one of the fountains inside the lobby and the lifts to take us to the top floor for breakfast
Breakfast on the top floor and the view over The Palm – man made islands for residential and hotels to be on the branches of the islands.
You can get an idea of the Palm. The large structure in the rear right is the Atlantis Hotel.
Our breakfast – Note the strawberry tarts with gold leaf on the strawberry.
Don’t you always eat gold leaf for breakfast?????
Here are some of the buildings – the architecture is amazing each sky-scraper different from the other.
The strange shaped sloping building is Ski Dubai – Indoor snow skiing in the hot desert!!!
The Underground / Subway / Metro
This frame will hold the world’s largest Television when finished.
Citicorp building New York or something????
We now enter the Marina district, where we boarded a catamaran and sailed all around the Palm and out to see, to get a sea view of Burj Al Arab
I was particularly taken with the spiral building known as Infinity building but I liken it to a DNA structure!!
The Train that takes one out from the mainland over the bridge to The Palm
This is the land station of the transport vehicle. Below – I was very taken by that spiral building!!
These are all structures on The Palm – Above The Fairmont Hotel and below – The Waldorf Astoria.
The Jumaira Mosque
Burj Khalifa – The tallest building in the world where we had the World Cruise cocktail and Dinner in the Armani Hotel, designed by Giorgio Armani.
The Captain, Hospitality Head and Entertainment head in the receiving line
Selfies at Burj Al Arab
Dancing girls and fountains during the cocktail hour.
Time to enter the dining room
The first show – Egyptian motif
The Captain delivers the speech and dinner commences.
Now the Champagne and petit Fours – Toast to Queen Elizabeth II 90th Birthday.
Dancing fountains as we depart
The Dubai Museum
Artifacts in the museum depict nomad life and boat building, pearl diving and archaeological finds.
Love the box above. Planting with drip irrigation, below.
Moving merchandise above, The Dubai Mall – largest in the world – has Olympic staking rink and enormous aquarium.
The 7 shieks that form the UAE above and the opening in the top of buildings in the old area of town which lets in air, before the age of Air Conditioning.
The boat to cross the Dubai Creek
Having crossed the Dubai creek we get to the Souk (Bazaar) of GOld, Spices and a plethora of different items to purchase.
A sample of the Gold in a couple of the 100 shop windows
Tachy and her new BFF! Roger finds just the right fridge magnet to add to the collection.
The spice market was amazing
Roger barganing for whatever we decided to purchase – great fun – Improv theater!!!
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