DESERT
BASHING - Four-wheeling up and down desert dunes is only part of the fun in Dubai, a
sunny but small and long-reclusive Middle Eastern kingdom that is beginning to open
up to tourism.
SOARING
SKYSCRAPERS - The battle to build
the world's tallest tower, once essentially an American obsession, is now a
worldwide craze, with much of the biggest erections in Asia and the Middle East.
As buildings reach higher and higher, there is seemingly no upper limit to the
quest to claim the world's tallest highrise.
DESERT
BASHING - Four-wheeling up and down desert dunes is only part of the fun in Dubai, a
sunny but small and long-reclusive Middle Eastern kingdom that is beginning to open
up to tourism.
HONG KONG OF THE MID-EAST?
That's the hope of Dubai, among the most progressive of the United Arab Emirates,
which has invested its oil wealth in hotels, an airline and other
infrastructure in an effort to become the top trading
center of the Arab world
* all pictures, unless otherwise credited, by Ron
Gluckman