Dubai
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| Burj Khalifa |
Day 1 : Dubai! We have arrived
Well let’s try this again!
18 months ago we booked this trip….. and here we are. Our first day in Dubai!
After a long ( and sleepless) 13 hour flight we finally arrived. Amazing how efficient some airports are…. Getting off the plane and into the hotel shuttle ( with a quick duty free stop) was 35 minutes!
After a quick rest at our hotel, we took an Uber to the Dubai Mall…. The world’s largest mall by area…. The size of 50 football fields. We quickly wandered through a small portion of the mall and headed put doors to explore.
Wow! What a site! The Burj Khalifa… the world’s tallest building standing 163 floors! It’s huge and beautiful especially as the sunset reflected off the metal… wow!
We heard the water fountain show was good so hung around to see. At 6pm the lights dimmed an the music cranked! Then came the water show…. Amazing! As expected, much bigger than Vegas with spouts of water shooting upwards to 275 meters…. That’s 900 feet!
After watching 2 shows it was time for a quick bite to eat…. Lucky for us a family just left so we got an outside table right at the edge with amazing views of the water fountain and Burj. Then came the bid surprise…. A laser light show on the Burj along with the accompanying water show! Incredibly beautiful… you could hear everyone ooing and awing!
After the final show, it was time to line up for a taxi back to the hotel…. There must have been over 500 people in line! But a it went fairly quickly…. After about 40 minutes we were in the car and on our way to a good sleep. Good 1st night in Dubai!