(56K!) Pictures from my "vacation" to U.A.E.

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For the last month and a half, I was fortunate enough to go on a government paid “vacation” to U.A.E. All of the pictures are not of sensitive areas/things etc, so no worries. Anyways, here are the pictures. Enjoy:

This is the lobby to the hotel of the Armed Forces Officers Club

On the way to Abu Dhabi:

This bitch was sweet:

 

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All the signs were in Arabic and English:

These taxi drivers were insane:

 

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A Mosque on the way to Dubai:

Kind of a shitty picture, because I took it out the window at ~130KPH.

They say that 18% of tower cranes in the world are in Dubai… I believe it!

The Burj Al Arab:

The Wild Wadi water park:

This is going to be the tallest sky scraper in the world upon completion. I believe it’s going to be somewhere around 1,700’ tall!

 

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Not only being Arabian, but driving a Corvette means this guy probably had no at all penis:

The Iranian Embassy in Dubai… it was cool driving past it during the midst of the crisis between Iran and England.:

The Emirate World Trade Center:

 

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This is probably the coolest thing in the country:

In the distance, is one of the towers that plays the moaning music to initiate “prayer time”:

This is the tube that houses the indoor ski slope:

The guys in the background would clean your car for you while you went in the mall to go shopping.

 

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She was a hottie:

 

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I’m not sure if this guy recovered whatever he was after:

This was the Marina Mall in downtown Abu Dhabi. Portions of the roof, were basically a circus tent:

This is one of the princes of one of the Emirates. His picture was everywhere.

 

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These picture turned out horrible in part to the glare on the window:

Neat Alien and Predator statues made out of nuts and bolts and other assorted hardware:

An Emirate family in their native dress:

UAE had dozens of Western restaurants. Burger King, McDonalds, Subway, Baskin Robins, Applebees, Chilis and TGIFridays to name a few…

 

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Matt, you need a Z8:

More pictures of the Burj:

 

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This is a picture of the construction going on out in the gulf to construct the Palm islands:

This is the supposedly the second largest mosque in the world:

Walked out of the hotel one day to find this parked next to us:

 

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Yours truly:

This is a picture of one of the mild dust storms I incurred while there:

This is one of the Prince’s palaces in downtown Abu Dhabi:

 

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I thought being on the other side of the world would get me away from riced out cars. I was wrong…

Z0mG:

All the toilets in this country came with an ass sprayer. No thanks…

 

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These are the Z28 Camaros that are used to assist the U2 in landings and take-offs:

I’ve never seen so many air conditioners in my life. I was happy to see them though because it was already ~110ºF in April!

A bunker:

September 11th memorial:

 

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The bar:

Some third country nationals that are hired by the USAF to work:

On our way home, we stopped for a day in Morón del la Frontera, Spain:

 

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I want to go there so bad

nice pitchers btw

 

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This is a panel in the back of a KC010 used for aerial refueling:

 

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*phew* That’s it!