CULTURE-RICH HE WORLD’S MOST luxurious hotel, the With Dubai conquering the world of superlatives, let’s explore why this place deserves your visit. Soaking in DUBAI by ORESTES NUÑEZ
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world’s tallest building, and the world’s largest
shopping mall complex—Dubai is fast becoming a city of superlatives the close we draw towards the year when all of Dubai’s major constructions projects came to completion. Dubai is the Singapore of Middle East not only in terms of its high ambitious projects in modern architecture, but more so in its being a cocktail of diverse cultures. Of Dubai’s roughly two million strong population, 85 percent are not native Emiratis. A staggeringly high number of the population are a mix of Europeans, Eurasians, Saudi Arabians, Indians, Pakistanis, Omanis, Africans, even Filipinos. Dubai is the perfect example of how many hast the ability to completely transform his environment and breathe life into a complex city from what used to be a vast expanse of desert. Dubai is the second largest emirate based on land area, following United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi. However, among the seven
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