July Catch Up: Dubai

Towards the end of July I went to Dubai for a week on business. I managed to grab a day during the week to actually see a few of the sites. Dubai is a bit of a strange place. During the daytime it looks like a giant building site (which I suppose is in truth what it is) yet at night it looks quite pretty. During the day it is very dusty and hot (although not as bad as I expected) and at night the dust is less noticeable but the heat is not.

Dubai: like an ugly girl, not bad-looking in the pitch black...
I got to the see the original 7 star hotel...
I got to see the partially constructed tallest building in the world (note the yellow dust)...
I managed a quick dash out to the desert...
and realised that although my point and shoot camera is quite good, sometimes it just can't handle what I want to do...eg. trying to take a photo of sand bloeing of the rifdge of the dune...
Watch out mate!!
Finally, I even managed to squeeze in a few hours on the slopes...
Although if you're any good at skiing, then Ski Dubai is really only good for the novelty value of saying you've been...