"I love cities I've never been to and people I've never met before."
- Anonymous
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
It's a place that embodies multiculturism (are you listening canada?) and reinforces heterogenity and celebrates difference. It's architecture is perfect, sleek and modern (Ayn Rand would have loved the buildings without all the 'frou frou'.) It's very non-middle eastern, no random camels and no hot sun with desert under your feet and other GMS (Great-middle eastern-stereotypes).
I tried finding out the history of Dubai, because I love to know what existed before and to my disappointment there was not much I could find. A few pretty mosques here and there. No great historical battlefields, no monuments, no pre-1990 stuff.
These pictures are so beautiful, and it's pathetic that they belong to a 21st century mall.
An afghani making a traditional carpet with his hands! It's the most painstaking task ever with so many details and the end product is not worth the cheap manual labour. It's a dying art of handmade carpets but my semi-marxist self wouldn't allow it to continue.
Burj Khalifa
Jumeirah Beach
A view from the top, buildings, buildings and then some more buildings
Desert Safari - Too bad I didn't take a picture of the belly dancers
