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Dubai is fast emerging as tourist destination of choice. Especially European tourists are flocking toward the sunny beaches and above average night life is Dubai. When I was compiling a list of places to visit in year 2009, City of Dubai was amongst the top 10 places to see. It is in-fact one of those cities, where skyline changes fast, really fast. If you take a look at this picture taken in 1990… It was nothing more than a barren land where you find nothing but blazing heat and dust. At that time, very few people believed that this wasteland could ever be transformed into one of the most successful cosmopolitan city in the world.

Compare the above picture with the one below. These are pictures of same street. One above was taken in 1990 and The second one, below was taken 13 years after it, in 2003. Human imagination, combined with trillion of dollars can sure create wonders.

This does not end here. In fact, no one is really sure, where this will stop. Below is the another picture of same street. This one, taken in 2005.

The pace at which Dubai is making progress is mind boggling. The state has more workers, working on permits, than it has citizens. It is estimated that 15% of world’s high rise cranes are in Dubai at the moment. Can you count them in the picture below?

All this to construct, world’s most expensive and luxurious hotels…

Dubai is really up to something. In years to come, Dubai is planning to have world largest and most beautiful water front called Dubai Water Front. Complete with a Marina..

Al-Burj(below), when completed, will be the centerpiece of these beautiful man made palm islands.

Here are few more angles of the same building…the skyline is just too beautiful to be…

At 1.2 Kilometers, this will be tallest building on Earth. 1.2 Kilometer above ground. Wow.. What’s next?

Downtown Dubai, with Burj-Al-Arab at its center is about to be completed. (below)

Dubai have and will have more and more attractions for the tourist around the globe… The Ski Resort is already operational. Yes!! Ski Resort in middle of desert. Arabs have gone nuts…really.

A Mega Sports City, This will attract millions of tourist per month and all major events will be hosted here.

If you are still not convinced that Arabs are on cracks…. Here is another plan that is under construction. “Worlds First Space Port” to take tourist in and out of space….

The world is in financial crisis. Americans are loosing jobs. there is no money out there and no jobs. As Obama said “We cannot keep borrowing from Chinese to pay Arabs for meeting our energy needs”.  The Arabs are really wasted. They are spending all their money in creating buildings and super structures in the hope that when oil runs out, they will live off the tourists coming from America and Europe to see these…. My prediction… in 2020. Dubai will look again like the picture below…but in the meanwhile, there will be one hell of a party going on there… and I am not going to miss it.. I am planning a trip next year…

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