Dubai was a nice bonus on my trip to Brazil—Emirates offered a roundtrip connection (the return flight included an overnight hotel stay and a visa, which was great). But I didn't like Dubai at all (I don't understand people who pay money to go there, and then again).
The timing of the trip was, of course, perfect—during the holy month of Ramadan and with a real +55 degrees outside :))
After waking up at the hotel, I took a sightseeing tour of the city. It’s convenient—it’s hard to see a big city without a car.
Until the mid-20th century, Dubai was essentially a "village." Residents were engaged in pearl diving, and when Japan discovered artificial pearls, the country plunged into crisis. However, then oil was discovered and...
Dubai is a city of roads and continuous construction.
People live here, traveling from room to room, from car to train, etc. - without air conditioning it is almost impossible
It was +55 degrees in the summer... it's like a Finnish sauna, but everywhere :))
The metro is very nice and you can get into the city using it.
Overall, the city looks like Disneyland—it seems to be there, but everything is artificial, not alive.
There are no people on the streets, and almost no plants either.
There's almost nothing to see - there used to be a village, but now there are only hotels and shopping centers.
Every second hotel is “the most expensive”, “the largest”
On the other side of the Persian Gulf is the absolutely real eastern and noisy Iran.
Source: travel.ru
