Dubai day 1

Madinat Jumeirah
First we went to the complex of hotels, mall, restaurants... Madinat Jumeirah, all made in traditional arabic style like old souks (markets) used to look like.

The towers have a special old style air conditioning system made with spears that create a forces air circulation and cool the air. You can see a lot of this in the old city. From here you have a nice view of Burj Al Arab, the famous hotel.

After that we went to the beach and had a nice swim in the super warm water (on Nov 16th!! - btw it is raining like hell in Rijeka right now, sorry)

It seems that Indian and Pakistani liked us a lot as they took maaany pictures of the two of us. If you have an Indian friend on FB you'll probably see us :-). So, we took a picture of some of them as well.

It was beautiful and I really enjoyed. The beach was very crowded as it is the Eid festivity and everybody have some days off. Indian and Pakistani represent more the 50% of the population of Dubai (locals are only 18%!!) and they are historically here from the old days since they were trading with India before they found oil.
After the beach we went to see the old city and the suks but it was so crowded that we decided to head back home and had a nice coffee at the Marina Dubai, just a few minutes from the apartment. This is the view from Tanja's balcony.

Even if it is warm the day last short as at home in this period and they don't have daylight saving time here.
Since we were not tired enough we went clubbing and I have to say it is a very Sex and the city experience (just without sex). We went to Habtoor grant hotel where they were giving free champagne to ladies and then to the extra fancy Armani privee in the Burj Khalifa. You have drivers parking your car, ladies opening for you the door of the toilet.... very very fancy. This is Dubai, too.