Pocket Rough Guide Dubai (Travel Guide eBook) by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Dubai
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2019-09-03T10:10:15+00:00

The Lost Chambers aquarium

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Alternatively, head to The Lost Chambers, a sequence of halls and tunnels through the hotel’s vast underground aquarium, populated by an extraordinary array of 65,000-odd tropical fish and dotted with assorted Atlantis-style “ruins”.

Marina Beach

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Dubai Marina

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Dubai Marina or Jumeirah Lake Towers metros.

A vast phalanx of tightly packed high-rises signals the appearance of Dubai Marina, Dubai’s brand-new city-within-a-city, built at lightning speed since 2005. Like much of modern Dubai, the marina is a mishmash of the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Many of the high-rises are of minimal architectural distinction, and all are packed so closely together that the overall effect is of hyperactive urban development gone completely mad. The whole area feels oddly piecemeal and under-planned, while the lack of pedestrian facilities (excepting the pleasant oceanfront The Walk at JBR and Marina Walk) means that you’re unlikely to see much more of it than can be glimpsed while speeding down Sheikh Zayed Road by car or metro.

It’s weirdly impressive, even so, especially by night, when darkness hides the worst examples of gimcrack design and the whole area lights up into a fabulous display of airy neon (or, if you prefer, a display of high-rise ecological catastrophe waiting to happen).

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