Middle East > United Arab Emirates > Dubai: Weather, Climate and Travel Guide

Emirate part of the UAE, Dubai is also the capital of this state planted in the desert between East and West. The prosperity of the emirate is not only due to oil, but mostly his business activities that attracted a workforce from all backgrounds and from all continents. The main feature of the emirate lies in the intensity of its contrasts: tradition and modernity, desert and futuristic buildings, mosques and openness displayed to Western culture ... The city of Dubai is located on the Persian Gulf and almost two account million inhabitants known around the world as a center of international shopping, it offers more than 40 shopping centers, not to mention the many popular souks of the city. Shopping centers also offer more than just shops where to shop among luxury products exhibited in abundance: sophisticated decor, restaurants and places to rest, beauty salons, cinemas, ice rink, amusement parks, trail skiing, everything is possible, extravagant and excessive. Architecture side, the originality with neighboring unreason: artificial island where stands the Burj Al Arab, the tallest and most luxurious hotel in the world (7 stars) boat shaped web; ski slope; tower over 800 meters tall, with 162 floors and a viewing platform to embrace the spectacle of the whole city; underwater hotel, still under construction; shaped hotel giant wave; nothing stops imagination contractors and architects who are full of plans for this incredible city. Besides the futuristic building that surprise many a visitor, you can also discover traditional buildings, especially if you take a boat to take you over Dubai Creek, with its old houses whose towers draw air in to ventilate the lower floors, natural and traditional air conditioning. Explore other sites: the spice souk and the Gold Souk, the fish market, the Jumeirah Mosque and the Marina district with its luxury yachts. On the cultural side, the Dubai Museum is in the old part of the city: it testifies to life in the emirate before the present era, the Bedouins and pearl divers, but also traces his sudden entrance into modernity . Cited above, the Jumeirah Mosque, built in stone, is a fine example of the architecture of modern Islam. The Culture Village on the banks of the Creek, home to museums and souks, river and docks, but its completion is still ongoing. If you want to tackle more natural sites, visit the east coast, where the Indian Ocean alongside the pure lines of Mount Hajar standing out against the deep blue sky, and where coral reefs call for diving in a tropical paradise . You can also choose to spend a night in the desert, to be combined with a hike through the dunes by 4x4.