Top 5 Travel Destination In Dubai

Once in Dubai, you can visit several travel destination that are worth seeing at least once throughout your life. Luxurious hotels, clubs, expensive restaurants, famous boutiques and alike are created to satisfy even the most demanding tourist.

Dubai is an ideal place not only for sightseeing, but for shopping and sunbathing as well. However, when visiting the emirate, pay attention to the season. In summer it is extremely hot here. The best months are in late autumn and winter. It is hot then as well, but you can stand it at least.

Once mixing with the crowd, you will feel the life and nature of this Arabic country. Below we suggest you study the top 5 travel destination in Dubai, just in case you decide to pay a visit to this fairy tale city.

Burj Al Arab

Since Dubai is home to luxury, hence Burj Al Arab is a typical example of its richness. The forth world’s tallest hotel stands on Jumeirah Beach. The hotel was designed by architect Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC.

The construction of the building was of great importance since the latter was to become a symbol of Dubai. Burj Al Arab is a 28 double-story floor building that has 202 bedroom suites, the smallest suite covering an area of 169 square meters.

Even though the hotel is officially ranked as 5-star deluxe, it is known to the world as the only Seven-Star Hotel.

Lots of tourists take pictures in front of the hotel. However a special tour can be organized within the hotel at a certain fee. Or once you order dinner in one of the hotel restaurants you can have access to the hotel. But make sure to have enough money with you, since the prices here are way too high.

Gold Souk

Located off the shores of the Dubai Creek in Deira, this Arabic-style souk offers a real shopping experience to its visitors. The market consists of about 300 retailers. Mostly they sell jewelry.

Since it is easy to merchandise in Dubai, as it has free trade policies, you can meet different vendors here. People from the nearest countries were encouraged to move here for better life conditions. Many of the stores here belong to Indians and Iranians.

The only peculiarity of this Arabic market is the tradition of bargaining. Do not believe the first price the seller tells you. You can keep on lowering it down. Do not be ashamed, it is like a tradition among them.

Dubai Creek

The city is divided into two sections by the creek. The sections are Deira and Bur Dubai. In the 20th century, the creek was the only port of the city at that time, so it played an important role in the commercial sphere of the city of Dubai.

Although Dubai creek that has long been acting as a main harbor, lost its importance with the rapid development of the Jebel Ali Port, other comparatively smaller facilities like Port Saeed still exists thus serving as major means to port trades from the subcontinent.

Atlantis Hotel

The famous hotel resort at Palm Jumeirah opened in 2008. The Palm Jumeirah itself is one of the trilogy including the larger Palms Jebel Ali and Deira, together comprising the Palm Islands, which is still under construction.

The building consists of two towers: East and West, which are connected to each other with a bridge. The total number of the rooms at this hotel is 1539. The five starred hotel is famous for its theme water park as well.

Burj Khalifa

This skyscraper also known as Burj Dubai is the world’s tallest manmade structure measuring 829.84 meters. The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the designers of the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Burj Khalifa was initially designed for the purpose to act as a multifunctional center hosting almost 30,000 homes, nine hotels, a large spot of about 3 hectares for parkland, 19 residential towers, the famous and adorable by all the tourists Dubai Mall and the man-made Burj Khalifa Lake, that occupies about 12 hectares area.

(Source : toptentop)

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