Dubai

It is good to have a lot of money. The problem that comes with it is what to do with a huge wealth. Thinking as an ordinary person money can create headaches. There is an old Hungarian saying that one can not sit on two horses with one arse. What is the point having 25 cars when one can only drive one at a time? Why have several houses or homes when one can only sleep in one bed at a time? At this list can go on and on. But we are human and love to show off.

Now when a country has more money, wealth that they know what do with that is a different story. Extravagance takes on a different meaning. Case in point is Dubai. Thanks to oil their wealth is beyond one's imagination. Poverty is not known in that country, but splurging is. Dubai is in the Arad Desert where temperatures range up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a hot desert country. So what did they not have? Snow skiing. But they do now.

In 2005 they opened Ski Dubai. Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 square meters of indoor ski area. The park maintains a temperature of -1 degree to 2 degrees Celsius throughout the year. It is a part of the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This indoor resort features an 85-metre-high indoor mountain (equivalent to a 25-story building).

A day ticket costs around $80 which doesn't sound too unreasonable. I was watching their webcams and noticed that the place was fairly busy. That means it is popular. Snow skiing in the middle of the Arabian Desert must be popular.

This article just wants to show that there are no limits as what man can do if the funds and technology are available.

If I were younger and have more money, I might just go off in August to Dubai for a ski vacation. But as it is now...