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wooden arcades and a waterfront location.

Little India, in the surrounding streets,

with its textile and sari stores and Indian

eateries, can easily absorb a couple of in-

teresting hours. Past the concrete jungle of

Golden Sands is Karama, home to a popular

mall with cheap souvenir shops and coun-

terfeit designer goods. The neighbourhood

may be made up of dilapidated low-cost

housing, but it has a real community spirit

that can be hard to find elsewhere in Dubai.

3 Sheikh Zayed Road &

Around (p77)

Dubai’s main artery, Sheikh Zayed Rd is

a super-busy highway that runs from the

World Trade Centre Roundabout, on the

edge of Bur Dubai, 55km south to Jebel Ali

Port, halfway to Abu Dhabi. The road is

flanked by a phalanx of skyscrapers, includ-

ing the 828m-high Burj Khalifa. Overlook-

ing a lake, the behemoth is the centrepiece

of one of the most prestigious develop-

ments, known as Downtown Dubai, which

encompasses the Dubai Mall, the Dubai

Fountain, Souq al-Bahar and several of the

city’s most prestigious five-star hotels.

4 Jumeirah (p91)

Before there was Dubai Marina and the

Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah was the place

where everybody went to realise their

Dubai dreams. It’s the emirate’s answer

to Bondi or Malibu, with excellent public

beaches, boutique shopping, copious spas

and health clubs, and a mix of Mercedes

and expensive 4WDs in villa driveways.

The actual boundaries can seem confus-

ing as the name crops up all over the

place, attached to hotels that are actu-

ally situated in Dubai Marina and to the

famous Palm ‘Jumeirah’ Island. In reality,

on its northern edge Jumeirah rubs up

against vibrant Satwa, while to the south

the neighbourhood encompasses Madinat

Jumeirah before seamlessly shifting to

New Dubai.

5 New Dubai (p104)

New Dubai consists of several differ-

ent areas. In Dubai Marina you not only

find bobbing yachts but also the group of

buttercream-yellow towers known as the

Jumeirah Beach Residence (aka JBR),

which flank one of Dubai’s most popular

walking areas: The Walk at JBR. North of

here, Al-Sufouh encompasses some of the

most upmarket hotels in town, as well as

the free zones of Dubai Internet City, an

information technology park; and Dubai

Media City, home to CNN, BBC World,

Bloomberg and other outlets. Jutting into

the Gulf is the Palm Jumeirah, the small-

est of three planned artificial islands off

the coast of Dubai but the only one to see

fruition (and likely to stay that way).

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