October 12th, 2009
Benefiting from the Riches of Dubai
The moment we woke up, we looked out our states room balcony and was we were in the port of Dubai. My wife and I could see all the definitive and common symbols of the city; the construction cranes, there were tons of them. The whole city appears to be under construction, from the high-rise luxury hotels Dubai UAE to some of the worlds highest skyscrapers. As we disembarked our luxury liner, we were given a quick history of Dubai, the entire Federation of the UAE is desert and was the land of the Bedouins that are a nomadic tribe of desert dwellers.
Apparently, three days before our visit to Dubai, there was a heavy rain. Luckily, the rain stopped just as our ship came to port. Before we walked to find our tour guide and, by the way, the weather was perfect, we had to go through emigration. We were also informed about the dress code here, so I wore long pants and a golf shirt and my wife made sure most of her skin was covered, plus we refrained from any public displays of affection, which was hard on both of us. We hooked up with another couple and found our tour bus.
The entire tour would take about four hours and we would then be dropped off so we could do some Duty Free shopping before it was time to head back to our ship. Back on the ship, we had a snack and talked about the city of Dubai. It’s a modern city with no signs of slums or poor inhabitants. It’s so unlike Saudi Arabia, which believes that the riches accumulated from oil belongs to a single family, where as the UAE believes that the riches accumulated from oil belongs to the UAE native population. The spreading of the wealth means all citizens are able to enjoy the bounties. Not a bad way for a government to run a country.
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