Where All Our Petro Dollars Used To End Up,
DUBAI - Called The City Of Gold For A Reason!
Things You Might See Every Day. Enjoy! :)
Taxis and Ubers - Come for the Bugati taxis, stay for the Lamborghini Lyfts and Ubers.
The Burj Al Arab is a 7-Star Hotel. One of only 14 in the world! You'll need reservations, though,
just to walk around the grounds.
If you're going to be gridlocked for an hour, you might as well do it in style.
A Gold SUV - need I say more?
Cool Doublewide Jeeps
They sure erect a ton of huge buildings!
Lamborghini Police Cars - Cops ride in Style - gotta be able to catch those
bad guys. This lambo goes from 0 to 'Five-O' in 1.6 seconds.
Amphibious Cars Must be good! The Crown Prince of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh
Hamdan bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has reportedly ordered no fewer than
six James Bond-style high-speed amphibious cars, which he is able to drive across
both sand and water.
Just when you think you've seen the most obnoxiously luxurious elite thing you've
ever seen, you see an island shaped like a giant palm tree covered in rich luxury
homes.
The 1200-Dollar Cupcake - only for you! This cupcake from Bloomsbury cupcake
shop in the Dubai Mall is wrapped in 23 carats of edible gold!
They are building all the time. Due to an ever expanding metropolis, 1 out of every 5 cranes in the world are
located in Dubai.
Even the horses in Dubai live in stables with marble floors and painted
ceilings - talk about high living.
A first class suite on Emirates Airlines gets you cush leather seats that recline
into a bed, a sliding door for privacy, a shower stocked with a selection of Bvlgari
toiletries, 2,000 TV and movie channels, complimentary door-to-door chauffeur
service, and access to the A380 Onboard Lounge, a private cocktail lounge with its
own dedicated bartender. How much does this cost? Only $30,000 for a round trip
ticket from LAX to Dubai!
The World's Biggest Fish Tank is where else but here? The world's largest
acrylic panel aquarium is in the world's largest shopping center, The Dubai Mall.
The Dubai Mall also has an indoor ski resort featuring slopes, jumps and a colony
of both king and gentoo penguins. Of course, the Mall also has a zoo.
Approximately 85% of the population in the UAE is foreign. The majority come from
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in order to work in the still-booming real estate
market.
Designed specifically for the Burj Al Arab hotel, this 24-carat gold iPad is
offered to every guest upon check-in. Stores also carry 24-carat gold iPhones
for the elite on the go.
If you loved the gold iPad, you'll probably also love this cheetah-covered GPS
system. Just kitten, that's a live cheetah sitting shotgun in a rich
guy's car. Dubai residents love exotic pets.
However, you won't be seeing this anymore.
The United Arab Emirates has outlawed the private ownership of exotic wild animals,
including cheetahs and tigers, and will fine or jail anyone caught parading
them in public.
Dubai is the place to say "Du-hi" to some of the biggest names in entertainment.
Like Tom Cruise here, pictured at the top of the Burj Khalifa during the filming
of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
Here's something fun to do - a 100-foot high Mesopotamian-styled ziggurat temple
featuring a water slide that catapults you into a clear tube through a shark-filled
lagoon. NBD.
Or how about watching the robotic Camel Jockeys? Yes, You read that right. As a result of thousands
of years of human rights violations, robot jockeys are commonly used in
camel racing as a replacement for humans.
This tennis court is over 1,000 feet from the ground and it is located at the top
of the ultra posh Burj al Arab hotel.
Nothing like a garden in the desert - and not just any garden! The Dubai Miracle Garden
is the largest flower garden in the world and is home to 250 million plants.
The colorful flowers combined with the cool designs make a huge visitor attraction in
Dubai.
Saudi Prince (Amir) al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul-Aziz is the owner of this
stunning diamond encrusted car and he is one of the top ten richest people of
the world according to Forbes. This diamond studded Mercedes cost him a mere
$4.8 million dollars and features over 300,000 diamonds.
With many locations in Dubai, these "Gold to Go" machines dispense pure gold and
are meant to make it easy to pay for things here. Only a super rich person could
come up with this idea! And it is popular. Dubai is now filled with ATM-like
gold machines like this. These machines are so heavily used that they have to
be restocked twice every week.
The Gulf is lined with private beaches filled with fancy people doing fancy things. Be
sure to check out the video below where some guy let his 5 kittens out to play on the beach.
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