Welcome to Dubai

Lately, with a whole family, we visited Dubai. Why Dubai – well, believe me, or not, but I would prefer to go to Baghdad or Damascus, as those are historic cities, but God knows, why someone decided it will be to be a war-zone. So instead of to see the historic places we went to see the biggest building and the Dubai Mall.

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The giant aquarium in a Dubai Mall. Photo: Julia Chodor

Oh, yeah, the Dubai Mall is impressive, especially the giant aquarium with sharks and other fish. Wow, there is even a cage so you can dive with sharks. Imagine this, you are in a cage, sharks surround you, the cage breaks down and the sharks are tearing your body to pieces while people around you are buying mink coats – a product of basic necessity on a desert. Isn’t it a beautiful death?

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A coat. Photo: Julia Chodor

So just remember…

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Photo: Julia Chodor

Let’s leave the mall and go outside. Here, with other people, we could admire the biggest penis, I mean the building, in a world during the fountain-erection show.

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A fountain show in a front of the tallest building in the world. Photo: Julia Chodor

Just don’t forget to take your mobile with you to record everything.

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People with mobiles. Photo: Julia Chodor

Once the show was over we passed the bridge and went to the… another mall. This one was the old Arabic market-style. Yanni (you know), this kind of market hall that you could see in Iraq or Syria before somebody dropped the bombs there.

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Old Arabic market-style mall in Dubai. Photo: Julia Chodor

After this exhausting tour, we went to drink something, just to keep up with the Middle East Western expats’ tradition „Go to Dubai to get drunk”.

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Photo: Julia Chodor

By the way, there are still available plots of land, so you can settle down here… on a desert.

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Available plots of land. Photo: Julia Chodor