Dubai was a nice bonus of my trip to Brazil – here Emirates had a transfer there and back (the return one with an overnight stay in a hotel and a visa at the company’s expense, which is of course cool). But I didn’t like Dubai itself at all (I don’t understand people who pay money to go there, and again)…
The timing of the trip was of course ideal – during the holy month of Ramadan and with a real +55 degrees outside :))
When I woke up in the hotel, I took a sightseeing tour of the city, which is convenient – it’s hard to see a big city without a car.
Until the mid-20th century, Dubai was essentially a “village.” Residents were engaged in pearl fishing, and when Japan learned to produce artificial pearls, a crisis began in the country. However, then they found oil and…
Dubai is a city of roads and continuous construction
People live here, traveling from room to room, from car to train, etc. - without air conditioning it is almost impossible
In the summer it was +55 degrees... it's like a Finnish sauna, but everywhere :))
The metro is very nice and you can get to the city on it.
Overall, the city looks like Disneyland – it seems to be there, but everything is artificial, not alive.
There are no people on the streets, and almost no plants either.
There is almost nothing to see - there used to be a village, but now there are only hotels and shopping centers
Every second hotel is “the most expensive”, “the largest”
On the other side of the Persian Gulf is the absolutely real eastern and noisy Iran
Source: travel.ru
