At dear SRB's Christmas/New Year holiday party a few months back, I met one of his colleagues, an Egyptian who, interestingly, used to live right across the street from the Pyramids of Giza but has never, in all his life, really been to the pyramids (if you look at the map, there is actually a large residential area next to the pyramids). And I thought, whoaa, that's like 'taking things for granted' at a whole another level dude! Now that I think about it, arrgghhhh sangat jealous aa plak, especially since we had to cancel our Egypt trip due to the unrest there recently and don't know when things will be stable enough for us to be able to go there and see the pyramids ourselves!
Aaanyway, since then, we sort of made a vow not to take things for granted here and to make the time to explore the tourist spots in Dubai, as many as we can. So as a start, last weekend we drove up to Palm Jumeirah, parked the car, then took the Palm monorail around the island. Since the monorail is elevated, we could get a good view of the Palm as the train cruises along the island's trunk.
It costs 15 dirhams per person for a one-way ticket and 25 dirhams for a return one. Quite expensive for just a 20-minute ride, but oh well, everything's here memang expensive, so terpaksalah live with it. But I wish the monorail track is built higher so we can get a better aerial view of the palm-shaped island, macam view from helicopter hehe.
But I guess this is the next best thing to the much more expensive helicopter ride, so let's just enjoy whatever that we can get, huh?
The Atlantis Hotel
Aquaventure (the waterpark in Atlantis Hotel)
Luxurious villas on the fronds
Jumeirah Beach
After seeing the view of Aquaventure, dear SRB suddenly got excited utk bermandi-manda plak so this weekend, Insya Allah, we're gonna go have some fun in the water bebehhh woohoo!
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