7. Chilling In The World’s Biggest Flower Garden
The Dubai Miracle Garden is the world’s largest natural flower garden, sprawling over 72,000 square meters or over 775,000 square feet. It’s located in the Dubailand district of the city and incorporates the Dubai Butterfly Garden, which is home to more than 15,000 species in a controlled indoor climate.
Floral displays include a series of Flower Houses, or homes covered in blooms, along with more than 45 million flowers in various shapes and configurations. Naturally, maintaining any kind of flower garden is a challenge in the desert, and the Dubai Miracle Garden operates with a custom designed irrigation system that works to conserve water by recycling waste waters and helping to prevent evaporation.
6. Skiing In The Desert
In a few short years, Dubai has gone from being a relatively insignificant regional port and fishing village to an oil-driven city to a tourism mecca with its extravagant ethos: If it can be done, we will do it here in the hot, dry Middle East. There are other indoor skiing facilities elsewhere in the world, but Ski Dubai is the first full-service indoor ski resort in the region.
It covers 22,500 square feet at a comfortable climate controlled at minus 4 degrees Celsius. This is a giant resort within the Mall of the Emirates on the Sheikh Zayed Road. Skiing, tobogganing, and snowboarding are all on offer, along with real snow, ski lifts, and the other usual resort amenities.
Everything you’ll need from boards to boots and jackets is available for rent just in case winter gear didn’t make it into your suitcase. To make the Dubai skiing experience even more unique, the facility even hosts intimate encounters with a flock of penguins.
Discussion about this post