Dubai - Night time Cityscapes

Here are few views of the city taken on an evening cruise setting off from the Dubai Marina and travelling up river. What I found fascinating was due to the number of empty flats (occupancy is apparently around 60) and the corresponding lack of lights from the flats, the buildings shapes were very much defined by their exterior lighting - something I'll be looking at in more detail tomorrow.

Dubai - Daytime Cityscapes

I spent a total of 24 hours in the Dubai and have never visited such a weird, strange and amazing place before or ever likely to do so. The figures, facts and stories about the place are mind-boggling. A quick example is that everything you see in the photographs below and the location where I was standing to take them did not exist 5 years ago - There was only desert. And they're still building like the clappers.