Millhouse

What is going on?? New projects announched are (i) a replica Taj Mahal that will be bigger than the real one; and (ii) a pyramid.

http://www.zawya.com/story/Dubai_to_...T180837ZSCW97/


http://www.zawya.com/story/Dh120m_Th...0121007030216/

utter madness. To balance this madness, I thought I'd post an article about eating cats in peru:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-festival.html

Meow

I am going to give as much creedence to the mega Mahal etc as I did to the underwater hotel, the one shaped like a donut, the one shaped like a man in dishdasha etc. It's Dubai. I'll believe it once it's half built and not before.

Considering so many debts are still outstanding, where is all the money coming from for the latest projects?

Meow

To quote from the Zawya piece:

Falcon Head shopping mall

According to the chairman, the company is currently working on developing the "Falcon Head".

"The Falcon head will be the shopping centre and it will be different from what we have here... it will be shopping with attractions."


Shopping with attractions? Like a ski slope, or giant aquariums and fountains?

scrubbedexpat141

Patsy Stoned

Polite and helpful staff with wide ranging product knowledge maybe

Millsyisland

Steady on now, let's be realistic here..

auzdafluff

You forgot museums...ish.

norsk

Not only is building a replica of Taj Mahal crazy, making it bigger than the original is just stupid. But it is an Indian company so that makes it okay I suppose...

Anyway I doubt the full project will ever get built and even if it does it will take about 10 years so when they finish the last building the first ones they put up will be ready for demolition..