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Dubai is a place that has been in the news quite a bit recently and in the last 5-10 years has undergone major changes to make it a favourite tourist destination. In fact before the recent downturn, Dubai was planning to have 15 million visitors to the Emirate by 2015. The reason that Dubai is aiming for more tourists is because the income has sharply declined from oil and so they needed to come up with another means of generating income.

There are many attractions in Dubai for the casual visitor. Most notably the climate is great for a large part of the year so there are plenty of hotels that have access to the beachand the beaches can be used all year round. The problem comes in the summer when the temperature rises to more than 40 degrees every day for about 3 or 4 months of the year (June-September). Although some people will still go out in these kind of temperatures, humidity is also high which makes for quite an oppressive temperature overall.

So if you visit Dubai outside of summer then in addition to the most popular pastimes of shopping and sunbathing, you can find plenty of other great things to do for the whole family. One of the most frequently undertaken activities is to take a desert safari in a 4 wheel drive car. This is not for the faint hearted as the expert drivers hover on top of and dive up and down sand dunes. Usually there is a desert camp afterwards where you can ride on a camel and eat local food.

Other things to do are to visit the old town area of Dubai where you can see the museum or take an abra across the creek to have a look round the spice and gold soukhs. The creek was at one time the heart of the city and still today you can see all the boats that bring in imports of all sorts of goods from the subcontinent. Watch the men unload the boats and it will seem like you are stuck in another century.

There are plenty of activities for the kids (and bigger kids) with a choice of water parks in and around Dubai. These waterparks are all pretty much state of the art with each competing with each other to be the best. Two of the water parks are in Dubai (Aquaventure and Wild Wadi) and two are about an hour’s drive out.

Of course you mustn’t forget the ski slope in the desert that is Ski Dubai. This is located in the Mall of the Emirates shopping mall and means that you can go from being in over40 degrees heat outside, to a snow filled ski slope inside within a few minutes.
Dubai is great for a beach holiday or a city break – there are a huge number of hotels that you can choose from so come for a visit.

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