Well, the city of Dubai may seem artificial and over everything a bit strange to find such a Hi-Tech air-conditioned city in the middle of a desert. But after spending some time there and after looking through the tourist attractions, one will admit that it is a city where you can lead a comfortable life.

Dubai basically was just a small town 50 years ago, but now has developed into a Hi-Tech vibrant city and the business and cultural focal point of the east and is also a wide known tourist attraction. The city of Dubai is well known for its architecture, lively nightlife and shopping destinations. Burj Khalifa with its 813m height tops the skyscrapers. The real estate business and tourism basically drive the city’s economy and one can see a never-ending development and innovations in the place.

The city of Dubai is a unique place and there are some incredible facts:

1. The Burj Al Arab hotel has enough gold to completely cover the famous Mona Lisa painting 46265 times. The interiors of this hotel are decorated by around 1790 sq meters of 24-carat gold.
2. 25% of all the cranes of the world were once located in Dubai. During the time of the property boom, the skyscrapers of Dubai were filled with cranes from all over the world.
3. The artificial Palm islands of Dubai contains enough sand to fill 2.5 Empire State Building.  The construction of Palm island of Dubai required 94 million cubic meters of sand.
4. The police force of Dubai spends more money on the police super-cars than it costs for a child to get an education in the United States of America. The Dubai Police patrol service uses super-cars to impress the tourists and show their status. The usually used Lamborghini and Aston Martins.
5. Nearly 85% of the whole population in Dubai is foreign. Most of the workers who were building the skyscrapers immigrated from nearby countries like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The class divide of the city is big with most of the workers living in shabby and horrible conditions while the Emirates have their rent, education and medical bills paid for.
6. In Dubai, robots are replacing illegal child labour in camel racing. Camel racing is a popular sport in Dubai and given the size of camels, only children can participate in the racing. As resident children were not allowed, most children were trafficked from different parts of the world and after this van, Dubai created a child-sized robot for the racing purpose.
7. Dubai is planning on building a climate-controlled city with air-conditioned passages that would be connecting various sections.
8. Until 2015 Dubai had no address or no pin code but due to the growing population, they now have started using the Makani number.
9. Apart from the very attractive salary, in Dubai, you do not have to pay any income tax. Thus, it attracts many people from over the globe
10. There are ATMs in Dubai that dispense gold bars instead of cash.