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Top Seven Beautiful Dubai Spots That Defy Their Desert
Setting
Below complete Dubai travel guide
from atlasobscura.com about Top Seven Beautiful Dubai Spots That
Defy Their Desert Setting.
Who cares about sandstorms? (Photo: brett
jordan/Flickr)
It’s no secret that
there is so much money floating around the city of Dubai
that it essentially exists in the future.
Yet many of the wondrous sights found in the rapidly
expanding city just really shouldn’t exist in a desert. In an arid climate where
temperatures routinely rise well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the abundance of
luxury, water-dependent spots like ski slopes, massive flower gardens, and lush
green golf courses seem like a directed F.U. to the harshness of the surrounding
environment. And with aworld expo set to take place in the city in 2020, things
are just getting weirder. Here are seven places that somehow really exist in
Dubai.
1. Ski Dubai
Winter fun in the
desert sun. (Photo: neekoh.fi/Flickr)
Located inside the Mall of the
Emirates, this year-round ski slope gets fresh snow each night in
direct defiance of the scorching temperatures on the other side of
the walls. The fully functional ski center offers a fake mountain to ski down,
as well as other ice-based attractions like an ice bar and a
penguin encounter. Knock it off, Dubai.
(Photo: Marko
Kudjerski/Flickr)
(Photo: pravin.premkumar/Flickr)
(Photo: Jay
Tamboli/Flickr)
2. Dubai Miracle Garden
Yes. Those colors are
real. (Photo: Srilatha Sharma/Flickr)
Want to plant the world’s largest natural flower garden?
Why not do it in the middle of the desert? The aptly named Dubai Miracle Garden
is a sprawling technicolor wonderland of fresh, growing flowers. It contains
over 45 million flowers set into elaborate displays that form words, patterns,
and images using a rainbow of natural color. The caretakers say they use
wastewater to irrigate the garden and keep it growing. But whatever they are
doing, it’s safe to say that no desert on Earth has ever seen this many lush
flowers.
(Photo: Srilatha
Sharma/Flickr)
(Photo: Tim
Adams/Flickr)
(Photo: Srilatha
Sharma/Flickr)
3. Jumeirah Islands
The swamp islands of
Dubai? (Photo: Dubai Construction
Update/Wikipedia)
For some, living in an ultra-wealthy city of the future
isn’t quite exclusive enough. The Jumeirah Islands developments were created so
that people could live on their own little man-made land on the water. The
neighborhood consists of 50 small islands set in an artificial lake that was
also purpose built for the development. Each island contains just 16 separate
villas, making them little communities within their own communities. It’s not
quite having your own island, but it’s close.
(Photo: Dubai
Construction Update/Wikipedia)
(Photo: Dubai
Construction Update/Wikipedia)
(Photo: Dubai
Construction Update/Wikipedia)
4. Palm Islands, The World, and The
Universe
The future of the
Dubai coast will encompass the entire universe. (Photo: Tobias
Karlhuber/Wikipedia)
Speaking of islands that probably shouldn’t exist, some
of the most iconic features of modern Dubai are the ever-growing artificial
island that have been built into the coastline. Not content to just create more
land (disrupting the local marine environment), the eccentric
goofballs that planned these new land features made them into fun shapes like a
palm tree and a map of the world.
A second, larger palm tree island is currently underway,
and a second artificial archipelago, titled The Universe, is set
to be created beneath the already finished, The World. It’s official: they are
playing God over there.
(Photo: NASA/Wikipedia)
(Photo: Aheilner/Wikipedia)
(Photo: Dubaiworld/Wikipedia)
(Photo: zlatko/Wikipedia)
5. Emirates Golf Club
Dubai or Miami?
(Photo: dubaigolf.com)
A golf course in the middle of a barren desert isn’t
absolutely unheard of, but it is pretty odd to see one that is covered in almost
blindingly green grass. The Emirates Golf Club actually consists of two
different courses that incorporate the natural environment, but each
includes fairways of such a lush green that they would likely get a California
resident arrested if their lawn looked as good. Of course the surrounding
resorts offer all manner of modern luxury, but having grass that green in the
desert is maybe the most decadent part of the whole affair.
(Photo: dubaigolf.com)
6. Meydan One Swimming Pool
Just the beginning of
a yacht-filled waterway. (Photo: crystal-lagoons.com)
Meydan One is a planned development expected to be
completed in 2020. When it is finished, it is set to break multiple world
records including the one for the world’s tallest residential tower. But maybe
the most remarkable parts of the whole affair are the planned canal and lagoon
structures, which will have room for around 100 yachts, and a 90-acre swimming
pool. Inland from the coast. In a part of the world where water isn’t exactly
easy to come by. Why not? While these features are not yet complete, a portion
of the massive swimming lagoon has been finished.
7. Burj al Arab Tennis Court /
Helipad
Looks totally safe
guys. (Photo: brett jordan/Flickr)
In 2005, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played a tennis
match on a truly terrifying court. The grass, court lines, and net had been
installed specially atop the helipad of the world’s third largest hotel, the
Burj al Arab. Shaped like a UFO and lacking any sort of guard rail, the
helipad is suspended over 700 feet in the air. This is all well and good until
you remember that Dubai is subject to intense sand storms that can last days as
high winds buffet the city in sheets of flying sand. A blinding sandstorm
probably isn’t so great for your game.
The tennis court no longer exists, but the helipad awaits
your arrival. You own a private helicopter, right?
(Photo: Michael
Coghlan/Flickr)
(Photo: Nitin
Badhwar/Flickr)
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