Dubai
Dubai- largest city in the United Arab Emirates, the administrative center of Dubai . It is situated on the shores of the bay, dividing it into two parts - east , Deira and Bur Dubai , located on the western shore of the bay .
This is the main business center in the Middle East , one of the largest centers of international trade and tourism on the coast, the commercial heart of public life.
Archaeological excavations indicate that the fishing settlements existed in this place more than 4,000 years ago. Until the 1940s, Dubai was a small settlement .Its inhabitants were mainly engaged in production of pearls, and exchanged it for food. But once in Japan have learned to show pearls artificially , began neskolkoletny crisis . It lasted so long until they found oil and everything changed. A wave of built-up in Dubai and the entire UAE .
90 years were for the most intense years of growing prosperity . During these years he was listed in the record books as the world's largest sports center for horse competitions with prize money of four million dollars. And to hold camel races here have been awarded major awards locally owned camels winners.Although banned in Dubai tote camel races held in the winter season, collected a crowd of fans throughout race tracks.
Most of the cultural and historical monuments such as the House of Sheikh Zayed , Dubai Museum, the Cultural - Heritage Village , located in Bur Dubai.This part of the city near the mouth of the estuary Deir connects underwater automobile tunnel. Deira is considered to be the area of wholesale and retail trade , immediately away from the underwater tunnel located markets: fish , fruit , Spice Market and the world-famous Gold Souk .Just east of Dubai, attracts an abundance of shopping centers and the large number of diverse shops, where you can buy everything without exception, from electronics to high fashion attire . Therefore it is sometimes called the Paris of Dubai Persian Gulf. But the visit of the old market does not necessarily make a car.Use the old transport and ancient ways that are open to you the real world of the East .
protsvetaniya Center City has always been a gulf. Although today Dubai skyscrapers built up and equipped with a pontoon bridge, connecting the palaces , the bay has remained the same as it was in those days.National Arab vessel ( Abra ) and now being built by the same traditional way to shop on the Gulf coast . Getting out of abry , you enter the territory of the bazaar where they sell fabrics.
On the other side of the bay you will find yourself in the realm of herbs and spices , which rise huge bags filled to the brim full of dried fruits, nuts and fragrant with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
followed by Gold Souk , where all that glitters is real gold. The shop windows blind you shine all kinds of jewelry.In a cozy bay Arabian Gulf marine cruising graceful wooden small boats , carrying goods.To plunge into real life in Dubai, you have to cross the bay on one of the traditional Arab passenger ships, the so-called water taxis that carry passengers on a daily basis consisting mostly of Indian civil servants and small shopkeepers .
The best time to visit Dubai - from October to April , when the temperature usually stays 20-30 degrees . In this time of year and are usually sports such as tennis championships , golf , water race .
Visitors visitors to Dubai - sports fans are excellent facilities for golf , horse riding, skating on the well-equipped ice arenas, karting , scuba diving, hunting for sharks and barracudas. A well-equipped beaches attract hundreds of thousands in Dubai visitors from Europe.
For the outdoor enthusiasts in Dubai indoor ski resort is built , which is located under one roof with a huge shopping center Mall of the Emirates. Ski Dubai has a ski resort or ski lifts, snow and slopes of varying difficulty.
A lot of tourists come to Dubai for shopping during the winter and summer festivals, when the discounts on virtually all goods account for more than 40%. During these periods the number of visitors far exceeds the population of the city .
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