we
are in a very modern, safe city, amazing scenery of East and West
with
even more amazing history,
Dubai
was a sleeping ,fishing village in the desert of Arabian Peninsula,
living the same way of life for centuries,
but
in 1970th oil was found and boom started, but the clever vision
of
the ruler at the time
and
desire to improve life of his people to the standards of civilized
world made building and development of this city
"the
wonder of the world". every
skyscraper, every building, infrastructure, landscapes, roads, shopping
malls are the
art of engineering and architecture
we
had tours of old and new Dubai,visited the museum of Islamic Civilization,
had an Arabic night in the desert,
camel
ride, belly dancing, thrilling jeep ride over sand dunes----up and
down, called dune bashing,
went
skiing in the biggest shopping mall in the world----indoors, chemical
free artificial snow not bad at all,
i
saw couple of innovations i did not see any other place.
population
of UAE about 8 millions, but locals only about 1 million, the
rest---expats---
people
are from all over the world who live tax free life here and
build
Dubai,
everywhere
we see men and women in Muslim cloth--long white and black robes,
some women cover faces--
you
do not see even eyes, also all Western, Indian Asian, Arabic, African
styles of dress,
Dubai
considered a modern city, a model of tolerance--there are about
180 ethnicity's living within the border of UAE---
hopes
to be a bridge between the Arab cultures and the West,
but
i checked few maps and there is no name --Israel, only Jerusalem
and
Palestine............
we
have a wonderful tour guide who lives here about 12 years and she told
us about wonderful life here
but
they have to follow strict rules,
the
attitude is --you do not like something --do not live here,
no
Arab spring in all 7 Emirates because of more or less evenly
distribution
of oil wealth
in
local population education, health care and housing, rulers here do care
about their people,
i
used metro, taxi, walked around, no problems, safe, friendly, very amazing
,
tonight
we move to the cruise ship--Costa Frivolosa--to sail around Arabian
Peninsula to
visit other Emirates and Oman,
we
will celebrate Passover,
to
all my dear family and friends
HAPPY
PASSOVER
love
to all, Inna
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Inna
Bakker
www.innabakker.net
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