This is our first morning in Dubai and we were woken up by the rising sun beaming straight into our room.
The sun rises over Business Bay, and all I can see new buildings coming up everywhere. And it is a fact that "miracle" that Dubai is today is not because of oil (it is Abu Dhabi that has oil, Dubai has practically nothing), it is because of cheap (and exploited) labour that they have been able to lure in from the Indian subcontinent...
Catching up on the news with Khaleej Times and as expected, there are reams devoted to India and the subcontinent, even Modi is a rage here...
Arabian breakfast with Khaleej Times...
Now this is what I loved about Dubai - the breakfast was awesome, I kept raving about the fresh hummus, muhhamarra, labneh and the soft cheeses and olives...
Falafels, minced lamb kebabs and sambousek with spicy Arabic black gram stew...
And what the heck? No bacon on the buffet... Ahem, not only that's haram here, I found the dips and falafels and stews far too healthy, to crave for my dose of bacon at all!
Now that's called breakfast with a view - we stared with wonder at Dubai's own "Tower of Babel" - the 828 metre, 154 storey-tall Burj Khalifa. Many would regard the Burj Khalifa as an iconic symbol of Dubai's wealth, I could only think of the curse of the skyscraper - the inexplicable link between man's towering ambitions and economic cycles...
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