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Dubai, UAE (Dexter)
11/22/04 Day 6 – DubaiSong of the day: Still rockin‘ the Casbah
When I got to Dubai, something became obvious pretty fast: this is not a poor country. It looks like somebody had a pretty nice oil field around. The city looks brand new and very Westernized, meaning there‘s as much KFC chicken in this town as there are lamb skewers! But the Muslim angle here is very obvious as well – all the dudes are wearing the full on white gowns and headgear (called aghals). It definitely feels like a foreign country.
I would call Dubai the Las Vegas of the Middle East. The city is very flashy, very touristy, and very expensive. In fact, one resort here is building little islands that make up a replica of the earth! I shit you not, Mel Gibson already bought England. I stayed at one of the nicest places you‘ll find anywhere, called the Burj al Arab. It‘s about 1000 feet tall and shaped like a giant sail. This city is too much, I‘m telling you. In fact, I read that Bill Gates is going to start having Microsoft conventions there, cause he likes the way they‘re handling their IT development. Crazy. So hurry up and get out here, I think you can still buy California!
The time difference from my home in Los Angeles is now 12 hours, so I guess that means I‘m officially on the other side of the world.
I will tell you more later.
