When in Dubai, Visit Dubailand
It’s a sad thing we Americans learn our geography via war coverage, instead
of, say, hyperbolic promotional theme park videos.
“Although it is a long and costly war, the number of soldiers increases instead of decreasing. So let’s take part in the war of development together, and let our victims be poverty, ignorance and backwardness.”
-Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, crown prince of Dubai speaking about Dubailand, the new $5 billion entertainment development under construction in his country.
He’s funny. I like how he gets you thinking he’s talking about jihad or something. Nope. When he says “radical extremism” he means a new water slide.
See, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates (they border the Persian gulf opposite Iran) is bursting with nifty stuff, like those man-made islands in the shape of countries, and other islands that look like palm trees, and that neat building that looks like a sail. And soon they’ll have dinosaurs and roller coasters too. I just wanna know when I start work on it.
