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I spent the whole day in Financial Centre where I was photographing iconic Emirates Towers. I ordered decaf coffee in Nero but judging from the heartbeat shown by my wristband and shaking of my hands I got regular one, so I had enough energy to walk through entire district and I ended up in Dubai Mall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deira district, where was my hotel, didn’t induce photographic frenzy in me. I took only few pictures of Union metro station area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First glimpse of Burj Khalifa in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I took the metro red line and got out at Emirates Towers station. First thing that caught my attention was this huge ring with (I guess) surahs of Quran written o n it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other side of the railway looked less original but still impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ring was super photogenic but too big to fit into the frame of my cellphone camera. I didn’t use the superwide angle lens cause distortion was unbearable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I got to Emirates Towers and took out the camera from my backpack I was immediately informed by the security that taking pictures with anything bigger than cellphone is not allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I managed to take only this one shot inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wouldn’t it be fantastic if they would resurrect space shuttles for that? \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No matter how impressive structures and buildings one can see in Dubai, Burj Khalifa will dwarf them all… with one exception about which will be a separate post. This exception though is only possible thanks to its remoteness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is one of the few places on Earth where such cars can be seen in abundance.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spent the whole day in Financial Centre where I was photographing iconic Emirates Towers. I ordered decaf coffee in Nero but judging from the heartbeat shown by my wristband and shaking of my hands I got regular one, so I had enough energy to walk through entire district and I ended up in Dubai […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tomekmazur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}