During the past few years, many travelers from all over the world started spending their vacations in Dubai. In fact, they fell in love with the city that has transformed to become one of the most amazing destinations in the world that welcome thousands of tourists from various regions around the globe. Today we will be highlighting some of the facts and information about Dubai.
Can you imagine first of all that the crimes’ rate in Dubai is around 0%?! In fact, there are only quite a few incidents of crimes that occur in the city. This is considered to be the highest safety rate to be found anywhere in the world due to the high-tech security systems and the state of well-being everyone is feeling in Dubai. This is considered among one of the reasons why tourists started booking their tours to Dubai.
Would you believe that one of each four skyscrapers in the world is located in Dubai. The city has around 25% of the cranes that are used to construct huge buildings in the world. Several travelers who tour Dubai enjoy watching these marvelous huge constructions and sky capers.
Another fascinating architectural fact about Dubai is that the sand that was used to construct the Palm Island is enough to build around three Empire States buildings. The amount of sand needed to establish the island was estimated to be around 94 million square meters of sand, while the Empire State Building required only 37 square meters of sand. The city has much amazement that grabs the attention of many vacationers to enjoy their holidays in Dubai.
Dubai welcomes a huge number of tourists every year. This number is truly quite enormous to the extent that the number of tourists who visited the city in 2013 exceeded the number of inhabitants of the city of Shenzhen in China, the 10th largest city in the world in terms of population. Tourists who spent their vacations in Dubai in 2013 were more than 11 million.
Dubai is nicknamed as well as the city of world records. The city has the largest and highest skyscrapers in the world, the largest mall, the largest fish aquarium, and the biggest artificial marina in the whole world. All these amazing attractions encourage many travelers to spend their holidays in Dubai.
Among the most interesting highlights of Dubai are the magnificent dancing fountains of the city. Dubai has the largest and most impressive dancing fountain in the whole world with a surface area that exceeds 30 acres and the water jump to a height that is more than 150 meters. This is another reason why many travelers prefer to tour Dubai, in order to view these wonderful attractions.
There are also some scenes that you can hardly view outside Dubai. This includes, as an example, seeing someone driving his car with a lion or tiger sitting next to him, many of the inhabitants of the city own several wild animals. Travelers from different sections of the world book travel packages to Dubai to enjoy this unique magical ambience.
Have you ever saw an ATM machine where you can withdraw gold and jewelry instead of cash? This is another thing that you can only find in Dubai. There are many other matchless scenes to view only in Dubai like tennis courts on top of skyscrapers, curved style skyscrapers, and shopping malls where a huge aquarium of fish is located in its middle offering the tourists who travel to Dubai enjoy a magnificent shopping ambience.