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Clubs                                                                                     ABOUT DUBAI





                                                                                                                                                                                                   Dubai  is  located  in  the
                                                                                                                                                                                                   United Arab Emirates.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   The  Emirate  of  Dubai  is
                                                                                                                                                                                                   located on the Southeast
              Music                                                                                                                                                                                Coast of the Persian Gulf
                                                                                                                                                                                                   and  is  one  of  the  Seven
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Emirates that make up the
                                                                                                                                                                                                   country.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Its  strategic  geographic
                                                                                                                                                                                                   location made the town an
                                                                                                                                                                                                   important trading hub and
                                                                                                                                                                                                   by  the  beginning  of  the
                                                                                                                                                                                                   20th  century,  Dubai  was
                                                                                                                                                                                                   already  an  important
                                                                                                                                                                                                   regional part.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   We left Kenya on the 4th of
                                                                                                                                   September, 2013 night for Dubai, the journey was smooth. We arrived Dubai on the
                                                                                                                                   5th morning and our tour guide picked us from the Airport and drove us to the
                                                                                                                                   hotel.
                                                                                                                                   During our stay in Dubai, we visited a lot of wonderful places like, Bur Dubai, Dubai
                                                                                                                                   Mall, Burj Khalifa, Ski Dubai, Underwater zoo, Palm Jumerriah Island, Jumerriah
                                                                                                                                   Beach, Jumerriah Mosque, Palm Jumerriah Shopping Mall, Buri-Arab Waterfalls and
                                                                                                                                   fountain, Dancing Fountain, Emirate Mall, Kidzania, Children's City, Desert Safari,
                                                                                                                                   and Sharjah Desert Camp.

                                                                                                                                   Bur  Dubai  is  a  historic  district  in  Dubai  United  Arab  Emirate,  located  on  the
                                                                                                                                   western side of the Dubai Creek. It is a home to several popular places for
                                                                                                                                   tourists including renovated historic buildings and museums. We took the Dubai
                                                                                                                                   Metro Red Line from Bur Dubai and did a city tour, it was awesome. We saw lots of
                                                                                                                                   skyscrapers, Dubai pyramid and many fun places.

                                                                                                                                   The Dancing Fountain was out of this world, it is the world's largest dancing
                                                                                                                                   fountain set in Burj Khalifa Lake, right outside the Dubai Mall on the lower
                                                                                                                                   ground  water  front.  The  fountain  shoots  water  that  goes  as  high  as  500ft,
                                                                                                                                   equivalent to that of a 50 storey building and dances choreographically to the
                                                                                                                                   music; in fact one of the children (David Thompson) said he feels like he is in
                                                                                                                                   heaven.
              Ballet                                                                                                               The Dubai Mall is the world's most visited and largest shopping mall in the
                                                                                                                                                                                              .
                                                                                                                                   world. It took 4 years and 1,380,000 men to build it
                                                                                                                                   It is located at the base of Burj Khalifa. The materials for building was far more
                                                                                                                                   than the materials used for the construction of the Eifel Tower.

                                                                                                                                   Burj Khalifa is the tallest manmade structure on the planet earth. In the Dubai
                                                                                                                                   Mall, we visited the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo, Dubai Ice Rink, Kidzania,
                                                                                                                                   Dubai Fountain, The Water Fall and lots of shops.

                                                                                                                                   Desert safari Drive was awesome, the drive was across the desert. We stopped to
                                                                                                                                   watch the beautiful sunset before we alighted at the camp site, where we had
                                                                                                                                   the opportunity to take a camel ride and sand boarding. We enjoyed a delicious
                                                                                                                                   barbeque dinner and shiaha (the famous Arabic water pipe), before returning to
                                                                                                                                   Dubai/Sharjah to watch our belly dancer performing her show around the camp
                                                                                                                                   fire by starlight.

                                                                                                                                   The Palm Jumeirah is in the shape of a palm tree, it consists of a trunk, a crown
                                                                                                                                   with 17 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms 11 kilometers of
                                                                                                                                   land and its total area is larger than 800 football pitches.
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