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At places like Babylon and Dubai people tried to reach the sky, and still the desert sun remains high above.

The Burj Khalifa, previously known as Burj Dubai, was built from 2004 till 2009 and opened in 2010.

Some of the steel used in the building originated from the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin.

With a height of 828 metres the Burj Khalifa is both the tallest building and tallest structure in the world since its opening and will keep the titles until the completion of the Jeddah Tower.

Just a few days before the Dubai trip I saw snow, the morning or my departure it was cold and rainy in Frankfurt, and then came the desert heat in Dubai.

I walked all the way from the Metro station to the Buri al Arab at about 40 degrees Celsius under the desert sun.

When I was walking back from the Burj al Arab I passed a bus stop, one of those air conditioned cabins, with dusty windows due to the sand, and someone had written on the sand layer “I wish I were as dirty as you”.

View after departure from Dubai International Airport.