Palm Jumeirah
Created using 7 million tons of rock and 94 million cubic meters of sand Palm Jumeirah is the world's largest man-made island. The island, in the shape of a palm tree, consists of a trunk, a crown with 17 fronds, and a surrounding island in the form of crescent 5 km in diameter, connected to the top of the palm by a subsea tunnel, served by Palm Jumeirah Monorail, which 5.4 km long rail line connects the Gateway Towers at the base of the palm tree island with the Atlantis Hotel located in the middle of the crescent island.
Madinat Jumeirah
The central place and the main part of Madinat is occupied by the boutique hotel Al Quasr ( 'the Palace' ), which is designed to resemble a Sheikh’s summer residence. It features 292 rooms and suites decorated in Arabian style with king-size bed, big flat TV screen, but also with a balcony to sit on chairs around the table and admire the Persian Gulf waters.
Burj al Arab
The highest an one of the most luxurious hotels in the world soon after opening in December 1999 became the irreplaceable symbol of Dubai. The big sail situated on its own artificial island 290 m from the coast during the day gets the bright white colour from teflon and light fiber cover, and during the night sinks in the flood of colourful lights. At the bottom the fire goes from four oil-shaft like big pipes, symbols of Emirates natural resources, and also from the water fountain. The fountain called 'volcano' indeed spits the water through the fire not ceasing it at all ...
Bur Dubai
BurJuman Centre
Over 300 brand shops gathered under one glass roof make both the ultimate place for shopping, and also for just sitting over the cup of tea and watch the people passing by.
There are 15 fast-food stores, 17 cafes including Starbucks and Dome and 9 regular restaurants, most of them on the green painted roof terrace.
Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum House
The residence of the former Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum has been carefully restored and changed into the museum presenting the surprising change of the small desert country to the modern metropolis.
Finished in 1896 the building is one of the oldest in the city. Made with use of traditional local materials, such as [...]
Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding
Created in 1995 by Mr. Abdallah bin Eisa Al Serkal the Centre became visible in 1998 when as part of Dubai Shopping Festival programme a group of volunteers started to give out leaflets and to invite people to a cultural tour under the name ‘Islam and Culture in Dubai’ during which the [...]
Read more about Bur DubaiWest Jumeirah
Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a man-made area in the heart of East Jumeirah, in the area called sometimes ‘new Dubai’ as many of recent stunning developments there became the symbols of Dubai shortly after finishing. Dubai Marina is located near Interchange 5 between Jebel Ali Port and the area which hosts Dubai Internet City, [...]
Mall of the Emirates
Driving Sheik Zayed Road one can’t miss the enormous building with characteristic metal pipe on the side ( Ski Dubai) .
This is Mall of the Emirates, the biggest shopping mall in Dubai with over 400 shops, cinema fun city and Ski Area.
The total surface of three levels stores counts 585 thousands of square meters, [...]
Palm Jumeirah
Created using 7 million tons of rock and 94 million cubic meters of sand Palm Jumeirah is the world’s largest man-made island.
The island, in the shape of a palm tree, consists of a trunk, a crown with 17 fronds, and a surrounding island in the form of crescent 5 km in diameter, connected to [...]