Dubai From Brian's Camera

Brian took a trip to Dubai last week and was finally able to send me the pictures he took from his iPhone. The pictures from a previous post were from a friend's facebook page--posted with permission.
Dubai is straight east of where Brian lives, and is in the country of the United Arab Emirates.

Satellite view of Downtown Dubai.

In this view you can see the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world) and its shadow just inside the top of the circular road called Emaar Blvd.

In the center you can see the Dubai Fountain, which is the mechanics of a huge water fountain. This fountain sprays water in various spurts and angles along with colored lights which all dance to the theme of the music that is playing.

To the right is the Dubai Mall. This is the mall that has the snow ski hill and large aquatic zoo.

 This is a replica of the Burj Khalifa.

Brian took this picture while looking down from above the entrance to the Burj Khalifa.

View of the mechanics of the Dubai Fountain. I was noticing how similar this photo is to the satellite view. Who needs a satellite if you can go up in the Burj Khalifa?

Here is the horizon from the Burj Khalifa. You can see the city just surrenders to a vast expanse of sand.

View from another direction of the Burj Khalifa. This shows the Arabian Sea.

This is one of the entrances into the Dubai Mall. Many of the people in the front have just come from watching the Dubai Fountain.

View of the mall walkways and domed ceiling.

Brian is standing in front of a window that separates the mall walkways from the mall ski resort. The resort is all enclosed and kept at about 28 degrees. All of the equipment and clothing is rented. The temperature outside was about 85 degrees.

There was also a sledding chute. Visitors could use the stairs as well as the ski lift. These photos are all of the bottom section, the resort goes way back and up to the left.

A view of the window that separates the resort from the mall hallways.

The Dubai mall has the world's largest single acrylic panel; They call it the Aquatic Underwater Zoo.

It is not very often that the Dubai Fountain is actually white. Usually there are colored lights shining through the water spurts. The water spirals and twirls along the pool surface while beautiful music is played into the night air.

Brian is standing on the edge of a man made island known as the Palm Jumeira. This is a huge island build by man in the shape of a palm leaf. These buildings are on the shore of Dubai and Brian is out on the island.

This is a satellite picture of the island Palm Jubeira. It is a little bigger than Downtown Dubai. Each frond has large villas and other buildings. Construction workers dredged the area and dumped sand in the shape of a palm frond. There is another larger one down the beach a few miles, but construction was ended before any buildings were built.

Close up of one of the fronds and the boat docks. This gives an idea of the size of each frond.

Many of you have seen the email about a tennis court on the top of a motel. It is the highest tennis court on earth--above the motel Burj Al Arab or Burj Dubai (I found it under both names). I wish I knew what "Burj" meant, they use that name often. Brian did not get a chance to go see it from the top, but he did get a picture of it from his motel.