It was a long flight from Tân Sơn Nhất airport to Dubai airport. Dubai airport is pretty fancy but kinda cheap and out of place. There are so much glass and huge posts, which probably were copied from the Roman Empire building designs. The floors are all shiny marble, and the ceilings are all 40-50 feet high.
For some reason, there are only a handful of seats in all the areas. You either have to sit real close to other passengers or find yourself an open floor and lean against the walls.
On one side, all the post were bricks and cement. On the other, all were shiny stainless steal. There wasn't much to show for. The majority languages spoken here are English and Arabic of course.
Once we got to the outside for a taxi cab to our hotel, we saw lines and lines of Mercedes and expensive high end German made vehicles for hire. The Middle Easterners seem to fall in love with Mercedes for some reasons.Dubai is a large city well known for luxury lifestyles, shopping, with ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. Right away we could see the rich showing off in their fancy cars and expensive designed clothing.
The weather was most pleasant when we landed here in February. It was never passed 72 and didn't get below 50 in the dessert at night, the whole time we stayed there. They said it only rain here once a year, and it was raining when we were heading to our hotel. What a coincident!
Dubai is a cosmopolitan oasis, a futuristic city that towers over the Arabian Desert. This is a city of superlatives, home to the world’s largest dancing fountain, tallest building the Burj Khalifa, the one and only 7-star hotel the Burj al-Arab, the largest artificial islands the Palm Islands, and the largest natural flower garden the Miracle Garden. It's no wonder, many of the world rich and famous have their vacation homes here.
Renting a dune buggy for a desert adventure, bargaining at the open-air market, or cheering on your favorite humped hoofer at the Camel Race Track are some of the most fun things to do in this desert country.
We got to our hotel around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It was about 40 minute taxi ride from the airport. Everything on both sides of the roads were things we had never seen before. We realized that the nomad lives of the desert people were so much different with city lives, but once we got to the city and its suburb, the buildings were the same in any big cities on earth.
We still had plenty of time to get acquainted with the city. It's time to venture outside for a new breath of the desert air.
The hotel we stayed is a mere 20 minute walk to the Gulf, the Persian Gulf, aka Arabian Gulf. On the other side of the horn, is the Gulf Of Oman. In between is the narrowest points of the two bodies of lands is the Strait Of Hormuz. The distance is 29 nautical miles. Iran is just a short swim away.We later found out that the port we visited is The Port of Dubai, aka The Port of Jebel Ali. There weren't many high end, luxury yachts as other rich ports in the world, but it looked pretty deep. Not much to see here, so we left after a short while.
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