Have you ever read a book so good you wished you could live in it? Well, thanks to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library in Dubai, you can be one step closer to living in a book. The library building is designed to look like an open book, which is so cool it’s surprising no one thought of it sooner.
The seven-story building houses hundreds of thousands of books, which means that book lovers who walk in will never want to walk out.
Golden Facials Are Real
Luxury spa treatments are nothing new. It seems like wherever you look people are trying to harness the power of the earth's flora and fauna to preserve their youth. One such trend is using a golden mask in facial treatments.
You might think you can get some gold-colored beauty masks at any beauty product store, but the percentage of actual gold in that mask would be minimal to non-existent. In Dubai, however, they don't settle for anything less than 24K of the real thing. The Jumeirah Zabeel Saray spa offers a full facial with a 24K gold mask.
You Can Get a Lava Shells Massage
Lava shells are the latest trend in massage therapy. Unlike the regular hot stones sometimes used in massage therapy, the lava shells can emit heat for up to an hour, which makes for an out-of-this-world session of massage therapy.
The shells go through a special process through which they absorb heat and minerals, which later help the patient with pain and stress relief. You can't just get such treatment at any spa, but in Dubai, these aren't hard to come by as long as you don't mind paying up to 200 dollars for them.
Most Guinness World Records in Mena
If you've been paying attention there's no chance you slept on the fact that Dubai breaks records for breakfast. The UAE has over 400 Guinness World Records (Yes, 400!) and Dubai itself is responsible for 60% of those.
Its Miracle Garden, which you can see in the picture, has three records, while Burj Khalifa holds eleven. Dubai is also known for breaking uncanny records no one else could even think of, like the longest underwater live radio broadcast (we didn't even know you could broadcast underwater!) Even weirder — a record for most people to parachute from a balloon simultaneously, which is like, what? But hey, they know what they are doing.
Dubai Was Founded in 1883
Dubai was first founded as a fishing village in June of 1833. It was a sleepy community up until the 1970s when it started to transform thanks to the Bani Yas tribe. 800 tribe members arrived and started populating and transforming the humid desert into the urban capital we know and love today.
In the 1930s, the population reached 20,000. In the 90s Dubai saw a revolution in the form of becoming a tourist destination, and today it is a multicultural cosmopolitan.