Some creative biquinis for this summer. Start to buy them :)
quarta-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2015
terça-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2015
10 facts about Dubai
One out of every 4 cranes on
Earth is located in Dubai.
Dubai's real estate is growing so fast, that 24% of the the
cranes on Earth are located in Dubai.
Dubai's artificial Palm Islands
imported enough sand to fill 2.5 Empire State Buildings.
The construction of Dubai's Palm Islands required 94 million
cubic meters of sand.
The Empire State Building is 37 million cubic meters.
The Empire State Building is 37 million cubic meters.
The Burj Al Arab uses enough
gold inside to cover 46,265 Mona Lisa paintings.
The interior of the Burj Al Arab is decorated with approximately
1,790 square meters of 24-carat gold leaf. The surface area of the Mona Lisa is 0.3869 square meters.
Dubai's police force spends
more on each of their super cars than it costs to send a kid to college.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Dubai's police force uses super cars in order to impress
tourists, and show how "classy" the city is. Including cars like the
Ferrari FF ($500,000) and Lamborghini Aventador ($397,000). They even have one
Aston Martin One-77 ($1.79 million).
NYU, the most expensive college in the U.S., costs $247,908 for four years.
Approximately 85% of the
population is foreign.
Al Jazeera
It is estimated that "10 to 15 percent of Dubai's
population" are Emiratis, while the other 85% are expatriates. The
majority come from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in order to work in the
still-booming real estate market.
They do find jobs, but human rights groups and trade unions call
"for urgent reforms" because they live in
"substandard conditions", and are "deported for striking over
pay and conditions".
In Dubai, $300 robots are
replacing illegal child labor in camel racing.
AP
Camel racing is an industry that is estimated to be worth
"hundreds of millions of dollars", although there is no exact number.
Because children are small enough to be camel jockeys, the sport led to a boom
in child trafficking from "impoverish[ed] communities in South Asia and
Africa" in the past.
Robots from $300 to $10,000 are now used in order to curtail the
problem of child trafficking.
The Burj Khalifa is so tall
that some of its residents need to wait longer to break fast during Ramadan.
Copyright Axel Schmies
The Burj Khalifa is approximately half a mile tall and has 160
residential floors. Those who live on the 150th floor and higher live so high up that they see the sun longer than
other inhabitants of Dubai. Consequently, they could not break their fasts at
the same time.
If the Burj Khalifa was in
Freiburg, Germany, you would still see it from Strasbourg, France.
Getty Images
You can see the Burj Khalifa from 95 km away.
The distance between Freiburg, Germany and Strasbourg, France
is 86.4 km.
Forty percent of physical gold
traded in 2013 occurred in Dubai. All together, it weighed more than 354
elephants.
Shutterstock
In 2013, $70 billion of physical gold traded and it weighed
2,250 tonnes. That's equivalent to 2,250,000 kilograms.
A male African elephant weighs between 2,268 to 6,350 kg. (We used the upper margin of 6,350).
Dubai is building a climate
controlled "city" 2.25 times as big as Monaco.
Dubai is planning to build a climate controlled
"city", which is slated to be 4.45 km2 with air-conditioned
boardwalks connecting the various sections of the vacation spot together.
Monaco has an area of 2.02 km2.
quarta-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2015
Taxis de Luxo no Dubai
Na verdade grandes carrões, Lamborghini, Ferrari ou Rolls Royce. Na verdade podes apanhar estes táxis de graça, sem pagar nada, só não podes é guiar... isso é que eu queria :)
Tudo não passa de uma promoção, sendo verdade no entanto que podes apanhar de graça, mas é no entanto interessante ver mais uma vez a luxuria do Dubai em acção. Qualquer dia ainda vou ter um destes :)
Nice mugs , canecas engracadas
Aqui vao algumas fotos de umas canecas engraçadas. Quem gostaria de ter alguma destas? Eu gostava vou procurar para ver onde existem e onde se pode comprar :) Bela colecção.
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