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In July 2006, we traveled to Dubai.

Dubai 02 Dubai Museum 02 Daytime View From Our Hotel Room With Grand Mosque2 Here is a daytime view of the Dubai Museum from our hotel room window at the Arabian Courtyard Hotel. In front of the museum is a traditional dhow and beyond the Museum are the minarets of the Grand Mosque. Dubai Museum is located in the Al Fahidi Fort, an imposing building that once guarded the city from landward approaches. The fort was built around 1787 and is thought to be Dubai's oldest building. Since that time it has served as a garrison, a palace and a prison. In 1970, the fort was renovated and turned into a museum, and in 1995 additional galleries were completed.

Dubai 02 Dubai Museum 02 Daytime View From Our Hotel Room With Grand Mosque2

Dubai 03 01 Bastakia Entrance With Desert Camp Mosque Built in the late 1800s, the Bastakia quarter was once the home of wealthy Persian merchants, most of them from the Bastak district in southern Iran (hence the name Bastakia) and lured to Dubai by tax-free trading. Bastakia occupies the eastern portion of Bur Dubai along the Creek. Dubai Municipality is planning to renovate all the historic buildings of the Bastakia area to open more museums, galleries, restaurants and traditional markets. In front is a reconstruction of a desert sitting area, with a mosque behind.

Dubai 03 01 Bastakia Entrance With Desert Camp Mosque

Dubai 04 01 Dubai Creek With Bur Dubai and Deira Dubai Creek, the historic focal point of life in the city, is a natural seawater inlet that cuts through the city's centre and separates Deira from Bur Dubai. The creek is alive with trade and tradition, the loading and unloading of trade ships that still travel ancient routes, and the beautiful promenades that line both sides of the water. In this view from near the mouth, the Grand Mosque dominates the Bur Dubai skyline, while the buildings of Deira are behind, including the Etisalat building with the golf ball on top, the Dubai Creek Tower, the curved National Bank of Dubai, and finally the triangular Dubai Chamber of Commerce building.

Dubai 04 01 Dubai Creek With Bur Dubai and Deira

Dubai 04 09 Deira Nightime View Of Etisalat Tower, Dubai Creek Tower, Sheraton, National Bank of Dubai and Dubai Chamber of Commerce We walked down the Bur Dubai promenade along the Dubai Creek in the slightly more comfortable early evening, and looked across at the buildings on the Deira side of the creek. On the far left is the Etisalat telecom building with the golf ball on top, then the Dubai Creek Tower, the Sheraton Creek Hotel (60m, 12 floors, 1978) with a triangular front, the curved National Bank of Dubai, and finally the triangular Dubai Chamber of Commerce building on the far right.

Dubai 04 09 Deira Nightime View Of Etisalat Tower, Dubai Creek Tower, Sheraton, National Bank of Dubai and Dubai Chamber of Commerce

Dubai 05 Sheikh Zayed Road 03 Emirates Towers The taller of the two Emirates Towers on the right (355m, 54 floors, 2000) houses offices. The second Emirates Tower on the left (309m, 56 floors, 2000) is the second-tallest completed all-hotel building in the world, surpassed only by the Burj Al Arab, also in Dubai. This is balanced by the curvilinear base structure.

Dubai 05 Sheikh Zayed Road 03 Emirates Towers

Dubai 05 Sheikh Zayed Road 07 Long View Sheikh Zayed Road is a highway running parallel to the coastline from Trade Centre Roundabout to the border with the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Here is a view of the first stretch of the highway, home to many of Dubai’s skyscrapers.

Dubai 05 Sheikh Zayed Road 07 Long View

Dubai 06 Jumeirah Mosque 01 Outside The Jumeirah Mosque has a massive central dome where non-Muslims can visit as part of the ‘Open Doors, Open Minds’ cultural understanding program. It is an exact copy of a mosque in Cairo that is eight times its size. This stone structure is built in the medieval Fatimid tradition with two minarets that display the subtle details in the stonework. The minaret is the tower from which the call to prayer is broadcast five times a day.

Dubai 06 Jumeirah Mosque 01 Outside

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 02 Outside From Entrance Bridge Built on an artificial island 280m offshore from the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, the 321m-high Burj Al Arab hotel is home to 202 two-story suites, each with its own butler. A translucent fiberglass wall shields the desert sun during the day and serves as a screen for a light show at night. Here’s the view of the Burj Al Arab from the entrance bridge.

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 02 Outside From Entrance Bridge

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 05 Inside Entrance Lobby The entrance of Burj Al Arab has large curved red leather seats, yellow carpet, with a blue floor.

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 05 Inside Entrance Lobby

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 10 Mezzanine Shop Selling Gold Everything that looks like gold is gold. Here’s a shop on the mezzanine selling, eh, gold. Notice the sold gold vest and gold soccer ball in the window to the left.

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 10 Mezzanine Shop Selling Gold

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 27 After Sunset From Jumeirah Beach Hotel After dark the translucent fiberglass wall serves as a projection screen for a nightly light show. Here is a dusk view from the beach of the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.

Dubai 07 Burj Al Arab 27 After Sunset From Jumeirah Beach Hotel


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