Today Colin, Mal and I went to see the model of the Dubailand development. Dubailand is a huge development (45 mega projects)of hotels, resorts and theme parks. There's Phaoroh's World with a theme park and several hotels, Sports City which includes the ICC Headquarters, Water World which is a $US1.8 billion water park and another called Motor City, there'll be Equestrian World, Snow World, X-treme Sports World and that's just a start. Being Dubai there'll be shopping in the Mall of Arabia which will be the world's biggest shoppping mall. The Global Village is going to be part of Dubailand including a model of the Eiffel Tower which will be 1.5 times bigger than the original in Paris. The whole site will cover 8,00 acres which is the size of Singapore.
The Dubailand media centre that we went to see features a massive scale model of the development. Visitors walk around a gallery and look at the model below, its that big.
In the media centre reception area there's a wall of windows looking out into a grassed area. And who lives there? Two enormous Bengal tigers who come right up to the glass of the reception area and pace up and down about 6 inches away from you. Tigers in reception?? That's so Dubai.
The photos are here.
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