Dubai

Dubai stopover. Deciding for a slow day and early night after a long overnight flight and early start tomorrow.

After arriving we jumped on the metro for trip into the Dubai Mall to see the fountain show. Opulence and extravagance, think of big brand name and it’s here.

The people very friendly and helpful, despite very full train I always had a seat. Metro very quick and efficient. Train every few minutes.

City very clean, noticeably absent was graffiti and unlike Brisbane homeless people. Lots of concrete not much grass. On edge of desert so expected. Interesting thing we noticed was outside the shopping mall huge numbers of men with women conspicuously absent.

Photo of Burg Khalifa (tallest building)Les mer