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Saturday, 22 March 2014 - Visited the Souk Madinat Jumeirah for shopping and admired the higher-end shops including a Persian rug store, took a 30-minute canal boat tour around the resort, photographed Mina a'Salam hotel and surrounding waters, explored the Mall of the Emirates with its grand atrium, hundreds of stores, and indoor Ski Dubai including multiple slopes, observed surfers at Umm Suqeim Beach at sunset, and ended the day with a Persian dinner at Anar on the deck by the water.

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The Burj Al Arab hotel towers over the Mina a'Salam hotel. Virginia Ann loved the Mina a'Salam and Al Qasr hotels in this complex. We went to the Souk Madinat Jumeirah market for the shopping. It was a higher end market including a very nice Iranian Rug shop - which we barely escaped without a purchase.
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The Madinat Jumeirah complex was built in the style of the older buildings. The towers are constructed to catch the wind and provide relief from the summer heat.
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The water is allowed to surround the hotels, so a quick way to get around is by boat. There are several landings and hopping off and on is fun. Since we were not hotel guests we had to pay for a 30-minute tour of the canals.
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Virginia Ann loved the way the water surrounded the hotel rooms.
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From the tour boat the Mina a'Salam hotel on the beach. This view is the same as the view from the hotel pool.
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The beach of the Mina a'Salam hotel onto the Arabian Gulf
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Off to the second biggest mall - the Mall of the Emirates. A bit smaller than the Dubai Mall with only 500 stores. This is the grand atrium and is four-five stories high.
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Besides hundreds of stores the Emerits Mall has a winter wonderland - Ski Dubai. Here a child enjoys an inner tube slide in the snow.
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The most unbelievable part of the mall is the ski slope. Here someone snowplows down the slope.

Of course you can take ski lessons - and to ski on one of the trails you only have to answer a few questions.
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A remarkable sight - this is from a restaurant that looks right into the ski slope. There are five ski trails in the complex - ranging from a beginners slope to the only indoor black trail. You can see the mall ceiling and lights over the ski slope.
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The ski slope raises two or three stories over the four-story mall.
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The minarets of a mosque near the Umm Suqeim Beach. Cal was there early to take sunset photos of Burj Al Arab so was able to capture the day and night views for the mosque.
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Surfers in the Umm Suqeim Beach surf. I was surprised at the number of women surfing.
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As the sun sets the surfers did not slow down
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Sunset on the Umm Suqeim Beach
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The Burj Al Arab hotel at sunset
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Jumeirah Hotel - or the "Wave Hotel" in the sunset as it begins to light up.
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We went to dinner at the Souk Madinat Jumeirah complex at a great Persian restaurant - the Anar. The food was great and we sat on the deck next to the water during a wonderful evening.

The much photographed Burj Al Arab Hotel from the Souk Madinat Jumeirah at night. Cal had to take another picture.
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Cal took a very short walk to a nearby parking lot to photograph two skyscrapers, Al Kazim Towers, modeled after the Chrysler building in New York. And the end of day two in Dubai.
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