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   Burj Khalifa

   A tower of 828 metres opened in January 2010 and still the tallest structure on earth, its Y-shaped plan chosen to stiffen it against the wind. Observation floors sit at the 124th and 125th storeys and, for more money, at the 148th.

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   Bur Dubai

   The older, western side of Dubai Creek, holding the Al Fahidi quarter of wind-tower houses, the textile souk and the abra jetties. The wooden ferries have crossed to Deira for a century and still charge a dirham, which makes them the cheapest thing in Dubai by a wide margin.

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   Jumeirah

   The coastal district running southwest from the creek, low-rise villas and hotels along the Gulf. The city's oldest beach hotels are here, along with the mosque that opens to non-Muslims and the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab off its southern end.

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   Dubai Museum

   The city museum, housed in Al Fahidi Fort, which was built in 1787 to guard the creek and is the oldest building in Dubai. The displays reconstruct the pearl-diving and date-trading town that existed until the 1960s, which almost nothing else in the city now records.

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   The Dubai Fountain

   A choreographed fountain two hundred and seventy-five metres long in the artificial lake at the foot of the Burj Khalifa, throwing water as high as a hundred and fifty metres. It runs every half hour through the evening and is free, which in Downtown Dubai is worth noting.

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   Deira

   District on the north bank of Dubai Creek, with the gold and spice souks. Wooden dhows still load here for Iran and India, as they have for over a century.

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   Business Bay

   District of Dubai begun in 2005 on land dredged along an extension of the creek. It was planned as a new financial centre and holds several hundred towers.

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   Dubai Creek Tower

   A Calatrava-designed observation tower on the creek, begun in 2016 and intended to overtake the Burj Khalifa, with a form derived from a lily stem and the minaret. Work stopped in 2020 and the foundations have been sitting in the lagoon since.

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   Museum of the Future

   A steel torus opened in February 2022 on Sheikh Zayed Road, wrapped in Arabic calligraphy that is also its windows — the text is three sayings of the ruler of Dubai. The building has no internal columns, and its seven floors are staged as an immersive guess at the year 2071.

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    Wild Wadi Water Park

    Water park in Dubai opened in 1999, themed on the tale of Juha from Arabian folklore. Its Jumeirah Sceirah drops riders eighty metres at eighty kilometres an hour.

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   Downtown Dubai

   Emaar's two square kilometres of towers, mall and lake, built from 2004 on empty desert beside Sheikh Zayed Road. It holds the Burj Khalifa, the Dubai Mall and the fountain, and it is the reason most visitors never see the creek at all.

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   Jumeirah Beach

   A public white-sand beach along the Jumeirah shore, free to use and lifeguarded, with the Burj Al Arab standing offshore to the south. The water is warm enough to swim in through winter and uncomfortably so by July.

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   Nad Al Sheba

   District of Dubai known for its racecourse, opened in 1992, where the Dubai World Cup is run — for years the richest horse race in the world.

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   Al Quoz

   An industrial district in western Dubai, half warehouses and half housing, with well over three hundred thousand residents. Since the 2000s its sheds have filled with galleries and studios, and Alserkal Avenue is now the city's contemporary art quarter.

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   Ras Al Khor

   A wetland reserve at the head of Dubai Creek, protected under the Ramsar convention and surrounded now by motorways and towers. Hides on the mudflats put you within a few metres of greater flamingos, which winter here in the low thousands and are fed by the municipality.

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   Al Bastakiya

   Old quarter of Dubai on the south bank of the creek, with coral-stone houses and wind towers. Slated for demolition in 1989, it was saved after a British architect intervened.

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   St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dubai

   One of only two Catholic churches in Dubai, and a parish of the Vicariate of Southern Arabia. Masses run in a dozen languages through the weekend for a congregation drawn largely from the Philippines and South India; the compound is crowded from dawn on Fridays.

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   Al Satwa

   A dense low-rise quarter between Bur Dubai and Jumeirah, and one of the few parts of the city that never got redeveloped. Tailors, textile shops and Filipino and Indian canteens fill the ground floors, and rents are among the last affordable ones in Dubai.

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   Al Karama

   One of the older residential quarters of Dubai, on the west bank of the creek and laid out in a tight grid of low blocks. Barely two square kilometres, it is where the city eats and shops cheaply, especially South Indian and Filipino.

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    Jumeirah Mosque

    Mosque in Dubai completed in 1979 in the Fatimid style, with two minarets and a dome. It is the only one in the city open to non-Muslims, on a guided tour.

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