Our Neighborhood

The Dubai Fountain. World's Largest.

I love our neighborhood! The great thing about living where we do is that while having a view of the world's tallest building, we also have so many great things nearby. Now that it's cool enough to walk, we are a walkable distance from the Burj Dubai (World's Tallest Building), Dubai Mall (World's Largest Mall [by square feet], with an indoor ice rink, Aquarium, and movie theater), Souq Al Bahar (another shopping area with great restaurants, bars, and shops), the Dubai Fountain, (World's Largest Fountain), Old Town (a residential area built to look like the old style of architecture with wind towers, etc.), the Burj Residences (condo buildings next to the Burj Dubai that have tons of good restaurants on the ground level, including NANDO's), and five luxury hotels which all have really good restaurants and bars. Not a bad place to live.

The Dubai Fountain in action. It comes on to different music every 20 minutes or so starting at 6pm daily. Absolutely amazing... It has water that shoots probably 40 floors into the air. I will have to try taking a video of it and posting it here.

The Dubai Aquarium in the Dubai Mall. Giant 3 Floor viewing panel. Sharks and sting rays mixed with other fish. They must be well fed, or else I think the smaller fish could not peacefully co-exist as well as it looks like they do with the sharks. We are yet to go in, but it looks really cool from the Mall... and it's directly across from Candylicious. All I can think of when I see it is...
"T u e s d a y afternoon..."

Dubai Mall Waterfall. I love it.

Another view of the Dubai Mall Waterfall. Everywhere you turn in that mall there is something else interesting to see. I will seriously have a hard time shopping in malls in the US after spending so much time at malls here. If they do one thing right here, it's definitely malls... But, I guess it is a completely materialistic and shopping driven culture, so they are bound to have nice malls.