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When I was a kid, we had a small amusement park (if it could be called so) in our city, and it was possible to walk around whole park in less than an hour. And when I saw Disney land on TV, I thought it seemed like a magic to me. After years, when I became adult and came to South Korea, everything looked so huge and unusual. I feeled like I am in another world or planet. At that time I came to Korea for Korean language courses. Our programme included a tour to the Lotte World — Seoul largest amusement park . The park owner is one of the largest companies in Korea Lotte. You may know about that company by newly built tower — Lotte tower. A park was established in 1989. 6 years later it was listed in Guinness world records book as the world largest indoor park. A total square of the territory is more than 128,000 sq.meters . And buildings total floor square (if it is called so) is more than 581,000 sq.meters. Lotte spent around 1 billion USD to build a whole park. Park is ...

Once you are in Malaysia, you should visit famous Batu Caves, which are already 400 mln years old. I think Batu Caves are one of the most amazing and impressive sight s in Malaysia. Batu Caves is a hill with serie of caves. The name of the caves was taken from the name of the river Sungai Batu or Stone River. Also, Batu caves is the most famous Hindu shrine, which located outside India. In front of the entrance to the caves, you can see Murugan monument . The height of the monument is about 43 meters. Let me tell you a little bit who is Murugan.  Murugan, who is also known as Kartikeya, is a god of war and victory in hinduism. This god has 6 faces. He is a son of Shiva and Parvathi.  It is not so easy to enter the caves. First, you should climb upstairs, so you should overcome 272 stairs . And on your way you will meet dozens of monkeys, which are usually very hungry and don’t hesitate to play with visitors. They can steal your stuff, accessories, bags etc. So, be ...

Have you ever been to Malaysia? Have you ever been to Kuala Lumpur? So, take a seat and let’s have a journey to this small city in the South-East Asia. Malaisia was my first country, which I visited after a long stay in South Korea. Furthermore, this trip was like a gift to myself for the graduation. So, it was end of the february. Weather is Korea was super winter, and I dreamed about warm place, about sun, about adventures. And here we go… Here are our adventures with friends. Well, the topic of the post doesn’t sound like a good place for a vacation. But let’s look and decide, is it really truth or not. A few words about city itself… Kuala Lumpur is located on the confluence of Klang River and Gombak River. Kuala Lumpur is a pretty young city, which was established in 1857. The territory of Kuala Lumpur is about 243 sq.km. Population of Kuala Lumpur is about 2 mln people.  Till 1957 Kuala Lumpur was a British colony. Therefore, the most of locals speak a goo...

Unfortunately, everything has an end, and my dream trip to Dubai finished as well. But it doesn’t mean that I gonna stay in the hotel or cafe and just count time till my flight. I have other plans for my last day in Dubai. First of all breakfast at the hotel, I already told you about awesome service there.  So, we are going to Jumeirah Mosque . Of course, it is not so fantastic as Sheikh Zayed Mosque which is located in Abu Dhabi. But Jumeirah Mosque is an only mosque which opens its doors to everyone regardless to religion.  I took a bus from my hotel, it goes directly to the mosque, and also, you can enjoy beautiful landscapes, like a city tour bus. By the way, I find regular public buses more touristic than city tour buses. Some local buses have a perfect route to see the main sights. Every day at 10AM mosque proceeds a small tour around the mosque and tell visitors about the mosque and religion. After the tour visitors can talk to Imam, and take pictures. ...

I already shared with you so many stories and places in United Arab Emirates. But I didn’t take you to the heart of Dubai yet. Probably, you already know which place I am talking about. Yes, today we will visit the highest building in the world —  to the Burj Khalifa .  Few facts about Burj Khalifa A construction height is 828 meters, and 163 floors (9 floors of which are for maintenance) . Burj Khalifa is a collaborated project of few world famous companies: Emaar Properties, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Samsung C&T.  Construction started in Spetember 2010, and official opening ceremony was on 4th January 2010 . The first name was Burj Dubai or Dubai Tower. On the date of openning it was renamed in honour of the president of United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bn Zayed Al Nahyan.  Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai Mall, or close to it. And you can buy tickets right there. But I would recommend you to book it in advance online. There are different typ...

The United Arab Emirates is a motherland to the world largest shopping malls. And if you are in UAE, in Dubai, you shouldn’t miss a chance to visit this shooping mall. Well, there are several shopping malls, but I will tell you about two of them: Dubai Mall and Mall of Emirates . I am not a shopping-holic, and I usually get bored of shopping very fast. But, if you visit shopping malls in Dubai, you can spend a whole day here. Let me tell you about Mall of Emirates at first. This mall is not just a shopping mall, it is a huge entertainment center , where you can spend not just a whole day, but a whole vacation. It is a first shopping mall, where I saw an inside ski complex . I didn’t have enough time to go inside for skiing, but I looked from the outside, and it looked super huge and awesone. Some people going abroad for skiing, but Emirates resdents can just visit Mall of Emirates. As any big shopping malls Mall of Emirates has a supermarket inside it. I visited Carre...

Have you ever been to United Arab Emirates? What do you know about that country? You can read my other stories in the publication. UAE was in my bucket list for a long time. For a long time I was enjoying this country just on TV, books, tourist’s blogs, or from my friends. But dreams should come true, and one day I finally got a chance to visit Dubai. One of the most impressive fact about United Arab Emirates were Artificial Islands. Artificial islands Palm Jumeirah were constructed in shape of Palm, and if you look it from the sky you can see this wonderful view. Few facts about Palm Jumeirah Palm Jumeirah was designed and constructed by a property developing company Nakheel .  Palm Jumeirah is a part of big project Palm Islands. This project includes Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira. The main goal of this project is extension of Dubai’s territory (520km in total).  The construction of the island started in June 2001. The most of the house...

Hello! What about to continue our online tour to United Arab Emirates? If be honest, while I was writing my memories about my trip to the UAE, I started to think to repeat that trip and go back to this amazing place. Well, if be honest, there are still many places to visit and see in UAE. I have been mainly to Dubai, but what about Abu Dhabi? what about Sharjah? and many other cities? But today I want to share with you some information about public transportation in the UAE. First of all, I would like to mention that public transportation in Dubai was pretty comfortable, fast, cleam and available . Let’s start our talk about arabian metro . Metro is unique here, it is not like in other countries. Maybe, because there are as common as separate metro cabines too. By separate I mean female or male cabines . Probably, you have seen many stories how people (mainly foreigners) confused a cabine. Furthermore, there are special or GOLD class cabines which are used by previlige cla...