Started up early…er, went around on a few bus tours (much videoing), went on an hour long boat ride through the marina, which was lovely, nice and relaxing. Then went off to the aquarium at the end of Palm island (a man made island in the shape of a palm tree… Dubia), turns out the gulf is actually only 100m deep at it’s deepest point, so making islands in it isn’t actually that crazy… It’s still crazy. Just not as crazy as I initially thought.

Anyway Atlantis Aquarium… I don’t recall every having been to an aquarium before, turns out I absolutely love them! I could have stared at each individual fish for hours! And they had 16000 different types apparently (not sure I ever saw 1000 different types, but that might just be my untrained eyes :P) But soooo many videos! I had too many favourite fish there to pick an individual favourite, but jellyfish would have come up in the list. That took about 3-4 hours of my day then as I’d missed the last bus tour back I got the Monorail (queue The Simpsons musical number), what other form of transport would be fitting of a man made island in the shape of a palm tree. Atlantic was obviously a hotel, restaurant and mall too, in true Dubia style.

Dubia: everywhere’s a mall! If it’s not, then it’s a Souk… Which is basically a mall.

Then I went to see the dancing fountains (just between the Berg Kalifa (largest building in the world) and Dubia Mall (The largest mall in the world (I think)), it was actually really fun. I videoed it and watched it a second time (the music is different each time). I liked it so much that I missed the last metro home by 4 mins. Luckily the taxis are amazingly cheap too! 🙂

It seems that accommodation is mind blowingly expensive, but everything else is as you’d expect in a major city or surprisingly cheap… Of course there are many 5* hotels if you want to go expensive.

I’ve noted that almost all the cars are new and shiny, cars here are cheap, as is petrol (40p/L!)

A few videos will come up when I have access to a computer and an SD card reader… Many videos will need some heavy editing! 😛 I have at least an hour of pure fish. Probably the same of pure skyscrapers. I’m a proper tourist now 😛