As I have earlier been informing about the situation in Dubai with the focus on Dubai Islands (The Palm Islands etc.) I cannot avoid show a little about the amazing things going on in Dubai even it isn’t directly related to island vacation but at least related to island vacation activities if you go to spend the holyday in Dubai Islands. The Burj Dubai will for certain be visible from the Gulf and from the Palm Islands as Burj Dubai is over 800 meters tall.

Experience the view on Dubai when Dubai is viewed from the top of this 826 meter high Burj Dubai by a rather nervous cameraman:

And here more about the building process – now all history, as well as my pictures of Dubai that I created a year ago when I had vacation in Dubai with my wife. So get an impression of the building of Burj Dubai in this short video:

More Burj Dubai – Burj Khalifa facts and figures, numbers and records.

Among the developer projects the Island Projects are among the biggest and most unbelievable on Earth, see our article: Dubai Islands in The Persian Gulf– Construction of artificial archipelagos and enjoy the online presentation the Palm Trilogy of Palm Jebal ali, Palm Jumeira and Palm Deira .

Video of the Dubai Palm Islands planning and construction.

The incredible trust in the future behind the vision and a belief that man can do anything with enough money and resources was to me an invitation to enormous risks of financial disaster and environmental degradation and social turmoil.

Contrary to the understanding of many the money behind the investments isn’t that much money generated in the Emirates from oil production, but foreign investors being persuaded to focus on investment in Dubai for big returns. With prices on property skyrocketing for the first years this seemed to be true.

With the global crises, first as a financial crises and now as a much more general global economic crises with recession in many countries such projects seem to go into a difficult future, as they are based on luxury demands for fancy resorts, luxury villas and departments and these depend very much on visitors’ ability to fly from far away to their property in Dubai.

I can only be worried that the warning signalled in the post on Bloomberg.com in the beginning of December has to be taken even more seriously here around the New Year of 2009, see Dubai Speculators Quit as Lending Drought Bursts Desert Bubble . One of the warnings referred to was “Dubai is more precarious than it has ever been,” said Christopher Davidson, author of “Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success” (2008, Columbia University Press). “If the property industry collapses in Dubai, it will be finished. Dubai’s relative autonomy will come to an abrupt end.”

I will later add pictures from my visit to Dubai.

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