PASSEPARTOUT . eng: We have already started the journey! First stop: DUBAI (United Arab Emirates)

Finally we're on our trip, we thought this moment would never come.

The first destination of this trip is Bangkok, but on the way we made a stop of 15 hours in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where we visited Dubai.

The "Dubai Marina". Dubai's financial district, with the Twist Tower, view from the shuttle from the airport of Abu Dhabi to Dubai city

The UAE is a country built with oil money, in the middle of the desert. There are lots of pharaonic works and constructions financed with this money all acros the country. In Dubai, for example, there are among others: two artificial islands in the shape of giant palm full of mansions; a hwole archipelago of artificial privates islands forming a world map; the tallest building in the world; an indoor ski slope (remember: this is in the middle of the desert); luxury and profusion everywhere... It is a country where everyone is wealthy or rich or super rich or multi millionaire. While hard work is all done with immigrant workers, some of them are also wealthy, but most of them not.

Burj Al Arab, the most luxurious hotel in the world

Our visit to Dubai was short. From the 15 hours we spent in UAE, we stayed only 6 or 7 hours in Dubai, as our plane went to the airport of Abu Dhabi. Also the fatigue of the journey and the previous days, bad sleep on the plane, huge distances between one point and another, and of course, the heat, allowed us only to see a tiny part of a city.


The metro station is a little far from the mall. Don't worry: almost 1km gateway with air conditioning to connect these two sites

Next to a huge shopping center, surrounded by an artificial lake with fountains and green gardens, there is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, 830 meters high. From here you can see the immensity of the desert, and the immensity of the city of Dubai and its skyscrapers.