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The Land of Extremes

Posted by jme75 | 14th September 2008

So now that I'm back in New York and in the full swing of school and my day to day life, my summer travels seem like already distant memories. But it was just a few weeks ago that I found myself sitting on a ski lift, pondering how it was that I was freezing cold and losing feeling in my fingertips despite being in the middle of the desert. Welcome to Dubai.

Now some have already noted that Dubai and Turkey aren't exactly on the way home from Nicaragua - but when you have a once in a life time opportunity to visit a friend who is working in Dubai for the summer (and can offer a free place to stay to boot) - you make an exception. Given all the things I had seen and read about the explosive growth of the most famous of the United Arab Emirates, I was surprised upon my first view to see how spread out it was. My friend MJ and I both commented that we expected it to be more dense - but then again, it is in the middle of a desert, and so has room to be a little more spread

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