Dubai.... the name brings to mind a glitzy city, tall skyscrapers, glamorous buildings and hotels, desert and petro-dollar-rich sheiks and such things. I have lived and loved the city and hated it for certain things (I truly believe that true love can not exist without any hate or remorse; it is like the most beautiful thing that you love most also has a few elements which one doesnt like or hates)....
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| The Sharjah Corniche with a lovely view |
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| The Deira Twin Towers |
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| The famous Burj- Khalifa- the new symbol of Dubai |
Apart from all the glass and concrete towers, the city has many mosques with beautiful architecture and illumination and they are spotlessly clean. This one is in Sharjah corniche.
A typical mosque
Dubai is also the home of shopping malls and you have so many that you lose count and each looks swankier, bigger and better and more glamourous than the last one.... it is incredible. And the airports- clean, business like, efficient and once more, a shopper's paradise.
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| Ibn Batuta Mall |
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| Incredible decor |
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| The themes in the Ibn Batuta Mall is beautiful and seems so real |
Ibn Batuta offers separate themes for each area and all of them are simply incredible in detail and portrayal.
And, then there is the contemporary and modernistic architecture of concrete, steel and glass...... so much of glass!!
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| Glass- extensively used in all architectures across the city. Here in the form of a dome. |
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| ... and here as a glass ceiling and skylight |
Long, covered and illuminated spaces with shops on both the sides and a posh atmosphere.....
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| Stylish Staircases..... |
Albeit all the glitz and glamour, the city has a short yet captivating history and it is a story of how a small fishing village transformed itself into the Dubai we know today. It is a very interesting story and one can see that in the Dubai Museum and Old Souqs of Deira and Bur Dubai.
A tour of the Dubai Museum in Bur Dubai and the Old Souqs is in a separate blog....
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