Travel Guide:dubai
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Climate Change Will Make These Major Cities Uninhabitable By 2100
This week, world leaders have come together in Paris for historic climate change talks — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — to negotiate an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. “[The] growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other,” said President Obama this week at the summit.
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Watch Out Disney: 20th Century Fox to Open New Theme Parks
Get ready for 20th Century Fox World Dubai, slated to open in 2018. (Rendering: 20th Century Fox Consumer Products) Disney has them. Universal has them. Now 20th Century Fox will have a couple too.
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33 Ways Dubai Ruins You for Life (in a Good Way)
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Living It Up Like a Sheik in Dubai
Welcome to Dubai, the crown jewel of the Middle East, where you can watch the future being built right before your eyes. Dubai is like a 21-year-old that won the lottery and is always one-upping itself with the biggest, the best, and the most elaborate creations man can make, from the world’s tallest building to the world’s first underwater villas. If you dream it, Dubai can do it.
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10 Most Insane Shopping Malls Around the World
The lavish Dubai Mall includes the Burj Khalifa – the tallest manmade structure on the planet. Perhaps the most famous mall on the planet, Dubai Mall is the world’s largest at 13 million square feet (the size of more than 50 soccer fields!) with 1,200 shops. Dubai Mall also flaunts the world’s largest candy store, an ice rink, and 120 restaurants (including joints from celebrity chefs like Mario Batali and Danny Myers).
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Two Women Traveling in the Middle East and How to Go Wrong, Very Wrong
On Christmas day I was rejoicing over a major travel coup. Abu Dhabi has long been touted as the cosmopolitan capital of the Middle East, known for its extravagance and booming nightlife. As it turned out, our experience couldn’t have been further from that.
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It's No Mirage: There's a Traditional Arabian Restaurant on a Road Between Dubai and Abu Dhabi
A waiter carries a tray of a mixed lamb and chicken Majboos, also known as Kabsa, at the Emirates Guest Cook Restaurant in Shahama, about 90 kilometers southwest of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The main road connecting Abu Dhabi with Dubai is a long stretch of highway that runs through the desert — a stark reminder of how the United Arab Emirates, on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, once looked just 40 years ago before an oil boom.
