Mall of the Emirates

Weather: Sunshine
Temperature: 36 C
Humidity: 79%

After a long day at the yard I was eager to do some sightseeing and shopping. There are vast opportunities for shopping in Dubai, in addition to all the regular shops around there are over 40 enormous shopping senteres around the citty. One of the biggest of them, The Mall of The Emirates, is on the picture above. That's the one I visited yesterday..

This is the dome in the middle of the shopping mall. I guess the difference between these malls and our famous Kvadrat must be pretty much EVERYTHING. From the palms, the gold, the variety of decent & good shops, the nuber of sheiks etc.

It took me about 1,5 hours to walk and look at shopps, without studying anything in detail or trying anything on, and that was just the first floor. There is a second floor just as big. And with all the different ice cream parlours, gift shops and restaurants that are around, this mall deserves at least a full day! I thing the mall has over 300 different shops..

..and then there is the worlds largest indor ski resort. The cafés by the skiing slope are called Aspen Café and At. Moriz Café - this is indees a Las Vegas on steroides! When paying a fee of 115 DHS (200 NOK), you get ski, cloths (except gloves) and a 2 hour ski-pass. However, the most exciting part of the entire ski-senter is sitting in a restaurant, sipping your coffee and watch all the arabs doing the bambi on snow. This will now be refered to sheik on snow...

View from St. Moriz Café