after a sad goodbye to all my cousins and my relatives we flew our tired asses to Dubai and arrived during the night. after checking in, it was time to explore the city. dubai is like...Ipoh (located in Msia). it's filled with traffic, there wasnt exactly much sights where we stayed because they were pretty much in the process of building everything. this is the fountain somewhere near the city, about a few minutes walk from our hotel. weather was about 13 degrees which was pretty cool, hot for me since i was already used to the weather in london and prague.
we checked out the shopping mall near our hotel which was ajoined to a boutique shopping mall so my granddad decided to take a picture of himself and the ivory horses that seemed to be exploding out of a big rock. apparently the king in dubai loves horses, so there's quite a few carvings and paintings of horses pretty much everywhere.
dubai is quite a fascinating city, it's tax free cause the government doesn't exactly need money from the citizens, they get money from exporting Oil to other countries. so they're a pretty rich country, and with that money they decided to make dubai a futuristic city. they're planning on building an underwater hotel which is at-the-moment being built in Germany. they're building the tallest building in the world and they're not telling anyone how tall it is because if someone else builds something taller, they can just add another couple of levels to retain the title of the country with the tallest building. it's sorta like Lego if u ask me.
so how do i know all these facts? that's because i'm sitting on the big bus...yeap it's pretty big and it's called The Big Bus (ha...ha). my family and i were sitting on the upper deck of the bus so we got to see the sights and the views. it's so hot when the sun shines but it's good cause when the bus was moving, hell the wind whipped my face and it was bloody cold! apparently during the summer, u can expect the temperature to go up to 45 degrees. oh yeah, there's gonna be some roasting during the summer.
this is the world's most expensive hotel and it is classified as the only 7 star hotel. a night in this hotel can set u back RM10,000 to RM48,000 and apparently (according to the tour guide) u have to book two weeks in advance just to go inside and have coffee which will cost about RM250. btw i didnt calculate this, the currency in Dubai is 1 to 1 for msian ringgits. oh yeah, entry to this hotel is RM100, yeap we're just talking about going inside and taking a look. i cant believe there's a cover charge for a hotel, it's insane but it exists. so what's so special about this hotel? if book a night in this hotel, there will be a limo sent to get u from the airport and they will bring u to ur room. no u didnt read wrongly, they will BRING u TO ur ROOM. the limo goes straight into the elevator which will take u up to ur hotel room, OR u can choose to pay more and take the helicopter from the airport to this hotel. yeap there's a landing pad on the top. talk about arriving in style...
after listening to the facts and the futuristic plans for dubai we had to stop by the museum and check out the past. so there's my granddad posing in front of the museum which was in the shape of a castle.
what the hell is there to do in a museum? check out the history, read the past, find out how they got to where they are now, oh and of course! take obscene photos! yes here i am with another guy, and he loves it up the ass. hahaha my sister took this photo and we ended up taking alot of photos that will upset the locals in dubai if they saw it.
this is what the arabs do, sit around in their camps with guns and swords and a no smoking sign next to them. oh wait there's my sister...she apparently wanted to join in with them...and looks like she is preparing to swim...why is she pretending to swim when everything around her is sand? puzzling...
that's a fake camel, yeah we took alot of photos which would make the dalai lama bitchslap richard gere. i would post the photo of what my sister and i did to the ass of this camel but i dont think anyone wants to see that.
so the next day we took a safari trip to the dessert, where we sat in a jeep that took us around the dessert. it was a bumpy ride and hell it was fun! the guy revved and went up slopes and went down it sideways...it was like a rollercoaster ride!
my mom and dad trying not to fall off the steep slope in the dessert. they were pretty woozy after the ride in the jeep. we had so much fun just sitting in the car. and the driver, yeah he was cute.
we had to see the camels in dubai, i've never seen one in my life. they smelt HORRIBLE! and i saw one pissing and the one behind it licking it's private area while it was pissing (drinking up the pee perhaps?). it was disgusting! then i saw a camel eat another camel's shit! according to the driver, the camels are one of the smartest animals in the world, u can even teach it to kiss. after seeing what they do i doubt i would wanna french kiss any camel.
yeah they're disgusting and smelly creatures, but they were so friendly. when my sister was taking this photo of me and the camel, it's head was actually facing the camera, but when i started stroking it's neck, it's head came down and started wrapping around me sorta like a hug. it was a pleasant end to a fantastic trip.
before i left i saw this camel licking the rust off the metal railings. it's tongue was so long...imagine what they could do...hhahaha disgusting alert. well anyways this stupid camel almost spat at me! i got away in time and got laughed at by the tourists. i'll be forever known as the poor asian guy who almost got spat on by a camel.
so to end off the trip, we spent the evening in this camp where we got to ride dirt bikes and ride on camels and try the local food. there was also a show on belly dancing by a rather plump woman who u can tell, is very good in bed. do u expect less out of belly dancers? this is the last photo of my holiday out of malaysia, and i must say it was one of the best trips EVER. so this is my advice to travellers
1) visit london for the sales
2) visit prague for the history
3) visit dubai for the futuristic plans
4) most importantly TRY THE FOOD!
and always watch the ground while u're walking. i stepped on horse shit when i was in london which was a nasty thing to get off.
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