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Two cute-as-buttons camels in the desert. I rode the back
one. Aren't they just adowable?? (Dubai, 2002)
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The Burj al Arab, taken at the Arabian Gulf coast. The only 7-star
hotel in the world. Built to look like a sailboat. Its
sister hotel (the one my sister worked for) was built to look like a
wave. Clever, eh?
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An illegal shot of the interior of the 7-star hotel, the Burj al
Arab. They rushed us after this and informed us that pics inside
were not allowed. A Hungarian friend of my sister's, and me,
having "tea" there.
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At our
desert safari night; that's me, smokin' a
hookah. Or a shisha. Or whatever they're called. |
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Dubai Creek, pic taken from up in a little gondola thingie that goes
across Dubai Creek Park. The triangular building across the creek
is the famous Dubai Golf Club.
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The view
of the Dubai suburbs from the top floors of the Jumeirah Beach Hotel (my
sister's former place of employment). Very sandy... |
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The view of the beach from the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.
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The belly dancer at the "desert safari" night. Nothing
like a Russian ex-pat bellydancing for a bunch of tourists to feel that
authentic middle eastern mystique...
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PROOF that I was there, and accomplished one of my
life goals of riding a camel. Pretty darn scary, actually. |
The
nifty dual-alphabet signs in Dubai. I find that road signs are
always the thing that make you really realize you're somewhere else,
while on trips. |
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this isn't technically Dubai, it's still going in this section because I
took this picture on the plane coming home from Dubai. These are
the lovely clouds while we were flying over Greenland, I think. |
Flying
over Greenland. |
