Destination Dubai – A Luxury Travel Blog
Dubai is glamorous, luxurious, and indulgent. It’s a city of skyscrapers, shopping and sunshine, where big business rubs shoulders with sun-seeking tourism. Dubai has always been known to push the boundaries when it comes to infrastructure development. With structures like Burj Khalifa, Burj al Arab and the Dubai mall; the skyline of the Emirate has grown farther than that of Manhattan. This slick city is famous for its soaring skyline, but that’s not the only thing to capture the world’s imagination about this bustling city. One of Dubai’s most ambitious projects has been the construction the city’s impressive man-made archipelagos, a land reclamation project that has seen millions of cubic meters of sand dredged from the Persian and Arabian Gulf’s floors, before being sprayed and “vibro-compacted” into shape (using GPS technology for precision) and surrounded by millions of tons of rock for protection. Perhaps the most recognized of the man-made islands is the Palm Jumeirah, and that’s where we started out Dubai stay.
The world famous Palm Jumeirah is located one kilometre from Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai’s main arterial road, and consists of a trunk, a crown with 16 fronds and a surrounding crescent island that forms an 11 kilometre long breakwater. The crown is connected to the mainland by a 300 metre long bridge, and the crescent is connected to the top of the palm by a subsea tunnel. The unique island is home to glitzy hotels, fancy apartment towers, upmarket global restaurants, and some of Dubai’s top luxury resorts, including Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort, a luxurious five star resort located on the quieter, eastern crescent of the iconic Palm. With views looking over the bay to the Palm Atlantis on one side, and…
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