Dubai is a city business substantially. It shows no later than when dressed as a tourist spends some time in the metro. Only now and then we run the other tourists on the way. It is a city where you are working and can earn a lot of money, but no city to become old. The second face is as already noted the incredible heat, although we have chosen according Dareen a “time with very pleasant temperatures“. However, we were informed, “It’s hot if you go from the office to your car and it drops from your sunglasses”. But for us it was a constant search for the next air-conditioned room. On the other hand, Dubai is out of working hours (and outside the major heat above 35 ° C) is a very lively city where you can make a lot of evening activities. This part, we mainly Dareen owe our host who showed us some beautiful places for an evening drink, including a great bar (Observatory) at the Marriot hotel with incredible views of the “palm” (unfortunately the windows were a little dirty and have the photos a little disfigured). And do not forget the whirlwind tour of the Mustang to the other end of Dubai, to admire the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at night. And do not actually on the other end of Dubai … the roads are just so incredibly far. For a city tour of Dubai to be planned. Our typical design “on the published in the city center and start running time on it” turned on the heat and 2 metro lines out to be quite counterproductive. Soon then comes a tram, which however is first tested a year without passengers to make sure that everything is safe. ;-) Who needs money here, even in the many oil. By the way, a liter of gasoline costs the equivalent of only 30-40 cents here. So if you want to tackle the whole a bit more relaxed, just take one of the many and incredibly cheap taxis (the taxi ride to the Atlantis Hotel at the top of the palm took us about 5 €, which is cheaper and faster than the drive the specially created for the Palme train.) Dubai is definitely a city of superlatives, with the highest tower, the largest indoor aquarium in the largest shopping mall, the largest New Year’s Eve fireworks, the longest automatically operated metro (etc., etc.. ) in the world. It was definitely a great and eventful stopover with incredibly nice new friends! (Thanks again to Dareen;-))

Burj Al Arab

Dubai Airport

sorry only google translate so far 🙁

Dubai is exactly how you would imagine it. You leave the plance and enter a fully climatized airport with 20?C. If you leave the airport, however, you’ll walk against a 36°C wall of hot air AT 8 AM!!!

After our arrival fell on Friday morning, is very little going on at the airport since Friday is the day of prayer for Muslims, which roughly corresponds to the Sunday for Christians. Accordingly, the Dende week in Dubai from Friday – Saturday. It was also equal the first little difficulty: we had to go before actually take the metro to our host, unfortunately, on Friday the Metro closed to 14 clock. After a little desultory search, a conversation with a taxi driver and a nice lady at the airport information desk, we were allowed to ride in a hotel shuttle bus, which gave us an approximately 1-hour tour hotel in Dubai!

Finally arrived prepared us Dareen our host a very warm welcome. She lives in the 31 floor of a high-rise complex with about 30 high-rise buildings â approximately 40 floors .. After a nice conversation with her and her just undressing French guests we tried the flight with an hour of sleep to sleep from the bones to be made after the “Mall of the Emirates” to visit with the Dubai ski slope. In the evening we were still a little walk through the bleuchteten high-rise buildings and a small Indian farmer’s market.