I arrived via Emirates Airlines at
Dubai International Airport around 5.20am
(Dubai time). Didn't really sleep in the plane and managed to watch three movies during the seven hours flight: Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire and Bangkok Dangerous.
At last I'm catching up with the movies.
The Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 has been put into maximum usage already and it's really huge. The place is new and looked so clean. The interior design was nicely done and it stood out giving a first hand good impression to travellers.
This particular terminal is fully dedicated to serving only the
Emirates Airlines and bearing in mind that it was built to cater for the large double decker Airbus A380 plane.
The long walk to the exit door from the customs or immigration checkpoint. Things didn't start smoothly on my arrival. Was supposed to board a bus provided by the hotel but missed it.
That was due to my stomach upset ....... had been eating too much along the way from KL itself. Digestion came too early. Never mind about the bus and went to relieve myself and found myself missing the bus.
Had to wait for another twenty minutes for the same bus
(or another bus) to turn around. The
Millenium Airport Hotel gave me a room on the 2nd floor but it was the end of the hotel wing. A good solid one minute walk from the lift. With my long legs and walking speed, it's considered very far. Now, good thing I relieved myself earlier. Never regretted that long wait for the bus.
By the time I got myself settled down in the room, it was already past 6am and I decided not to go anywhere in the morning and stayed in to sleep till 12 noon. Went downstairs for a good buffet lunch before joining another colleague of mine for our trip to Sudan.
Funny that the office booked the two of us into two different flights on the same morning. His flight departed at 12.30am and mine departed at 2.10am. There's only one flight to Sudan per day so we definitely will meet at this hotel. After our lunch, we hopped into our hotel bus to go to the airport for our connecting flight to Sudan, scheduled to depart at 3pm.
As we alighted from the hotel bus, I saw this ambulance that looks like one of those that I saw in the USA movies. Similar built.
Nice architecture design seen at the outside of the
Dubai International Airport. Now, that's not the airport.
The main entrance of the airport with its superb curved in roof.
That part of the building is the part of the
Dubai Light Rail system. This is one of the stops for people to alight at the airport.
Surprisingly, the winter is still hovering around Dubai. During the early morning, I could feel the cold air
(17 degree celcius) and during noon time, you don't really feel the heat
(25 degree celcius) at all as cool wind was blowing against your face.
That's the
Dubai Police car, Toyota Prado!
The well covered escalator area for travellers coming from the monorail station to / from the main airport building.
The Perak state govt (as I like to call it that way) has unveiled a plaque at the feet of this famous tree.
The plaque in its glory.
Not long after that, Malaysians who passes by that area will take opportunity to take picture with that glorifying tree and plaque. Name me one tree in Malaysia where large group of people line up to take pictures with.
There are people who don't like this plaque at all. They found it offensive and illegal. They can't stand that this tree and plaque have been idolised by the general public. So, in order to stop the people from forming a cult, they destroyed the plague for the good of the people.
