Dubai, U.A.E – By Anna

Dubai was a quick but fun stop. When we arrived in Dubai, we were exhausted because we had woken up at 4:00am to catch the plane. We took our luggage to the Carlton. When we arrived, my mom seemed so excited about something so we followed her. She pointed across the street to….. Tim Horton’s!! We were all so excited because we hadn’t seen one for eight months. So that was were we ate lunch. I ordered a bagel and Timbits. It felt like home. After lunch, we made our way to the hop on hop off station. Dubai is such a nice city with the tallest building in the world and the largest shopping mall in the world. We got off at a Spice Souq which is an area with every spice you could imagine. There was: cinnamon, cloves, different salts, cardamin, lots of peppercorn, saje, turmeric and lavender. It was so busy but a great experience. After the Spice Souq, we went to the Gold Souq. There was a tonne of jewelry and gold statues. After the souq, we got back on the bus and we drove around the city. We saw the tallest building in the world called the “Burj Khalifa”. The Burj Khalifa is over 828 meters tall and has 163 stories. We also past the Dubai frame which is a huge frame that frames the city and lights up at night. As night fell, the bus dropped us off at the largest mall in the world with an indoor aquarium. The inside was beautiful there were more than 1200 stores and services. We fell in love with the massive bookstore. After the shops, we went down to the huge food court with every single food you could imagine. We had a delicious Indian dinner with butter chicken and mutter paneer. Then, we went back to our hotel for an early night before waking up at 4:00am again to go to Jordan! Dubai is a big city built in a desert with amazing archatecture.