Day 126 - Today, we visited a place that definitely wasn't on my list of things to see in Dubai. However, Jay's sisters had seen pictures and videos of Dubai's Miracle Garden on the Internet. So, we took the Metro out to the Mall of the Emirates as the bus system runs a special #105 just to the gardens. (We did have a bit of trouble getting to the bus stop, which is clearly visible from the Metro Station. The quick way is to take a door marked 'exit' and NOT TO follow the signs that point inside the mall.) We wasted a bit of time.
The gardens themself truly are a bit of a miracle. The bus took us and other tourists a half-hour into the desert near Barsha. The gardens are more than 10 years old and it is rather amazing to see hundreds of millions of blossoms in the middle of the desert. (Their website boasts about 150 million at any particular moment.)
Jay's sisters were in photo-selfie heaven. They walked around much more than Jay and me. That is the reason there's a plus sign in the title. We sat at a table in an area covered with vines. The wild birds definitely were doing the same! We sipped water bottles as it was a lovely 28C. The gardens are only open six months a year and it was getting near the end of the season. The flowers surely looked great near the end of March.
Of course, we had to return to the Mall of the Emirates. It is quite a bit farther out on the Red Line than the Dubai Mall. However, it is known for Ski Dubai. Although we didn't don winter attire and take the chair lift to the top of the indoor ski hill, we did snap a photo from the warm side of the glass.
Oh, Dubai! Dreams can become reality with enough money and energy!
