MY TIME OUT - DUBAI

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So you have two days off every week and you are all alone in metropolitan city like Dubai. You have 48 hours to yourselves and you are free to do anything you pretty much like – well as far as the rules allow it. The night life in Dubai is amazing to the extent I have heard about it. I have not yet had the luxury to go out and live the life to the full at the amazing pubs or discotheques yet.  My activities are pretty much diurnal. The desert heat boarding fifty two degree Celsius does not give you the luxury to go out any time you like. Still I have had braced the searing heat and went out a couple of times – once the world famous Burj Khalifa and second time to the Dubai Marina.

I have seen The Burj many times in the movies. It always was so intimidating and big to watch the Burj in all those movies. Millions and millions has been spent in building the world’s tallest tower and the first impression that I had was “My gosh! Why did they make it so ugly?” The towering structure of steel and glass looks nothing out of the ordinary except that it rises like a giant needle stuck out in the middle of nowhere. The fountains at the bottom looked more like they had some character. After being disappointed by the Burj, it was time to visit the Dubai mall nearby. This time I was not disappointed, I had to constantly ask the security to find my way through the amazing maze of shops, waterfalls, fountains and aquariums. Dubai mall lived up to the expectations and the agony of being turned down by the Burj was to an extent eradicated from my highly expectant mindset.

Dubai Marina is another land mark that everybody should visit once in their life time – If not to see the beauty but just to visualize the amount of work that has been put up in bringing the sea into the and building the amazing structures around it.

One regret still remains in this beautiful city, the constant construction going on around. Dubai is like a huge amoeba; always active, elongating at some place while shape shifting at another. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution takes its form in Dubai, and his theory of the survival of fittest applies to the million who has made it their home. 

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