Dubai: Sun, Sea and Souks
With extreme wealth and a lairy line in architecture driving its development, the steamy, sleepy backwater of Dubai has been transformed into a latter-day Xanadu
Take a sleepy pearling port on the Arabian Gulf, add sudden wealth from an oil strike, an enlightened and decisive government with ambitious plans to make the place an international financial hub, shopping paradise and magnet for holidaymakers, throw in some of the most extravagant buildings in the world, including [ read more ]
