Join the "half" mile high club

As is pretty common knowledge around the globe, there is a phenomenal amount of building work going on in the UAE, and will be for some years to come.

Abu Dhabi is building whole new communities on new islands as well as race track for the first ever AD F1 Grand Prix in 16 months time and Dubai, as well as everything else, is building the worlds tallest tower, the Burj Dubai, which as I have mentioned in a recent post will stand over half a mile high!

There are loads of images available of the tower, and a fair few have been sent to me. However I was sent one recently taken from the top of the tower, some 2600 feet high or 800 metres, looking down onto Sheikh Zayed Road.It is absolutely breathtaking.

I was driving down Sheikh Zayed Road the other day and was in awe of the scale of the towers either side of me. The tops of those towers are what you see in the photo above. They are about 40 to 80 stories high, and to give you some perspective of the height of the Burj Dubai, that photo is taken from the top of it, about 800 metres high, over half a mile, or about 156 stories high.