Sky scrapers like Burj
Khalifa unveils the height of the sky giving you a feeling like you have almost
landed in New York City. As I was finding hard times to insert my SIM card her
statement reminded me like Dubai obviously one of the most dazzling countries
of the world.
Then I wonder is it all
about Dubai and to answer my question I decided to spend next 10 days to
discover the charm of Dubai.
While I was driving the
street of Dubai from its airport I witnessed its amazing roads, construction
were going everywhere and its all around development could be witnessed from
its billboards that announced its victory over international market. The
emirate have recently got an opportunity to host World Expo 2020 which is the
largest trade show on earth and after hearing such announcement my Dubai based
brother and his wife said how all we are going to celebrate the occasion.
After such announcement
Burj Khalifa presented itself with brilliant fireworks and following the same
measures Baskin and Robins celebrated the occasion by giving free ice cream to
the people. They partied all night celebrating the incident and that feeling
gave me an opportunity to understand their ownership and their adapting policy.
One of the friend or
rather say counsellor said how blissful is Dubai’s tolerant, its diversity in
terms of culture, better job prospect and placement and standard of living
describes its potential and prospective.
My children were happy as
they got a chance to take a ride of fastest rollercoaster in Abu Dhabi’s
Ferrari world. Before they were off the rim they were given protective goggle.
Grabbing an opportunity with both hands they switched the lane with Formula One
Car while speeding up with the speed that measured 150 km/hr in just 4.9 seconds.
After the ride all they had to say was awesome theme park of Ferrari. Day’s
later one of our friends invited us to drive down the Ferrari owners club to
Hatta Mountains which was about 105 km away.
Responding to an
invitation we drove 18 formations within an amazing highway and I learned that
model numbers of many of the Ferraris are resonant by their number plates. One
of my friends husband explained me that in terms of showing your wealth in
Dubai your license plate should match with the numbers of your car.
I was shocked to
understand the fact that lower the number of car plate the higher status of its
owner and Dubai being one of the most developed and wealthy countries dominates
the game of expensive number plates. Businessman Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri
invested more than $ 14.2 million to buy a license plate bearing a number 1.
Amazing facts but the vanity plates does compliments your business as their
value is appreciated by an estimated 20% annually.
My journey to Hatta
Mountains gave me an opportunity to witness the natural terrain of Dubai.
Camels were grazing within the arid zone and bare mountains reflected its
beauty from the distance. Although the entire surrounding are their own but
still they did not forced themselves to take pictures of them. While talking
with them I understood Dubai is dominated by conservative Islamic thoughts and
conflicted and confronting regions but still one must look to appreciate its
call of providing freedom to expose their wealth.
In Lush Ville on Jumeirah
beach my friend house we saw a car show at their doorstep all the vintage and
customised car were being remote controlled by a young driver and those drift
were just awesome. Drifting became hobby after the incident of Red Bull Car
Park Drift finals which was held in Dubai my friend said.
After the collision of
2009 Dubai is not only trying to show its domination over oil and real estate
but rather they are trying to develop better services in tourism industry. An
incident of such initiative is Burj Khalifa where you will witness premium
residential areas, office, retail and hotel space.
New free trade zones like
Jebel Ali port are offering cheap business license to foreign owned businesses.
Dubai at present is home to more than 20000 international companies.
Affluence and brilliant
job opportunities have negative side too as many of the teenager are in Dubai
are victim of unstable life and when they say goodbye to their friends it
ushers an doubt whether they would see him again or not said by Dubai based
counsellor. It was on February when Kerala teen in Sharjah walked away in
morning to give his exam but eventually committed suicide. Family problems and
greater responsibility have asked the youth to end the journey of their life
and after January UAE have witnessed three suicide case of teenager.
While watching my niece
playing football I agreed with her words but for others quality of life and its
better infrastructure, standard of living, zero taxation and entertaining
environment have really made people unconscious about other consequences.
Late one night one of my
friends walked me in to experienced other side of Dubai and it was its dance
bar where girls from different region comes here in 90 days visas to earn some
for them and most unfortunate part if they don’t get enough they are forced
into prostitution. My expat said unlike in India tipping here illegal so
patrons buys tiaras and present it to them.
That’s not all walking
down the site of Marina I recalled 98.8% of Dubai’s water desalinated at a huge
cost still the imperials of the emirates loves investing in water parks,
private pools, gardens and fountains.
Then again I remember the
plans UAE-based Kleindienst Group’s who are planning to invest $ 850 million in
development of the Heart of Europe. They have planned to install 1.6 km long
climate control which would enable the rain and snow to fall artificially on
the tumbling environment of Dubai.
As my plane took off from
the side of Dubai I started wondering whether the boom of Dubai is just a
bubble or will it change the history of the world but one thing for sure if
they continue to host programme like Expo 2020 and sustained their practice
than they could well make oil-rich West-Asia the centre of the world.
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