Emirates Marina Hotel & Residence Dubai

Usually, one would go to bed early after having packed his luggage considering that one has planned a 24 hour trip to Africa the next day.

Well, I started my African experience in a slightly different way – I went out until 3 in the morning, just having 3-4 beers and surprisingly woke up the next morning with one of the worst hangovers of my entire life and my luggage still unpacked.

I managed ...

Dubai es uno de los siete emiratos que integran desde 1971 los Emiratos Arabes Unidos. La ciudad de Dubai es famosa por sus cientos de atracciones turisticas y su gran zona de rascacielos, entre ellos el Burj Dubai (Torre mas alta del mundo), y bloques de edificios en Sheikh Zayed Road, situada en el distrito financiero de Dubai. Curiosamente Dubai es inusual en cuanto a su población, ya que se compone principalmente de extranjeros procedentes de mas de 80 ...

... stop on this Arabian adventure. Our next stop was out on the Palm Islands at the Atlantis Hotel. This hotel is located at the far point of the man-made island that is shaped like a palm tree. We drove out thru the construction and the tunnels to the farthest point on the island away from shore. It was the fantastic Atlantis Hotel. This bright pink hotel is enormous in size. At the very center of the hotel is a large, no extremely large aquarium that is about fifty feet ...

... some lunch. We headed out to a restaurant called Bazarkhan in the JBR district. Ok, if I were to move out here, JBR is where I would want to live. Well, either that or the Marina, simply awesome! The restaurant was a Lebanese restaurant and recommended by Ahmed, well... it kinda sucked. The Service was horrible and way too overpriced. The only redeeming thing about the place was that the Shisha guy was very friendly. After lunch Chris dropped me ...

... honest. The upside is that in the evenings they have great celebration tents which stay open until two in the morning. We went to one on the beach in front a hotel modelled on the best of a romanticised idea of Arabian architecture. Called the Madinat Jumeirah, it looks a bit like a ride that Disney would build for Aladdin, but inside it was really quite tasteful and is where we would like to stay if we ever return ...

... destination. Yep, just like that. And with a plan in place for well over a decade now the Arabs certainly can't be accused of not giving it their best shot. They have gone to some outrageous, almost superhuman lengths in an attempt to put Dubai on the high rolling tourist map: they have constructed, or are constructing, world class golf courses, race tracks, legions of luxury hotels, multimillion dollar apartment complexes, shopping malls, massive ...

Meine Familie hat uns zum Flughafen Zürich gebracht. Nach einem Nachtessen sind Manu und ich durch den Zoll und Richtung Gate der Emirate's Ariline. Der 1. Flug ging Richtung Dubai. Der Flughafen Dubai ist wirklich gigantisch. Schon Frühmorgens hat es hier tausende Menschen die ihr Gate verzweifelt suchen oder die vielen Einkaufsmöglichkeiten mit Tax-Free nutzen. Dank Wireless Network konnten wir zwei diese Homepage einrichten und somit die Wartezeit nutzen.

... a chef? totally no idea. dang, life is such a mystery! Niweis,I hated ...

... careful about not doing dumb stuff. A lot of people have a bad image of us, and maybe have never interacted with other Americans. We're representatives of our culture, you know?" "Yeah, when I signed up for Dubai, I didn't think heavy drinking would be in the job description." "I didn't really come here to party, I came here to study Arabic." I thought, am I ...

... and Al Bustan shopping centres which had mostly fabrics and eastern clothes. There were no interesting food shops so we had Maccas for dinner. Walking a couple of blocks homes we passed a cool clothes shop full of clothes made in India. I bought two tops and a necklace for 145d ($52). Organised the hostel staff to take us to the airport tomorrow morning.