Dubai is a cosmopolitan melting pot at the crossroads of time - and the quintessential home of sand, sea, sun and shopping. A century ago, it was a tranquil town along the banks of Dubai Creek, where coral-and-gypsum huts housed Bedouin traders and pearl divers. Today, the merchants have gone international, their bounty calling forth science-fiction style skyscrapers from the sand to stand  alongside the mosques and wind towers of old Dubai.

New Dubai