littlejimmy

Say what you like about Wonderland...this is impressive.

lionheart

What's different about seeing Dubai from the air? Same old...

Jeeper

It does highlight how ridiculously tall the thing is.

I remember sitting in Vu bar in emirates towers once and thinking how high it was. If you look at Emirates towers from Al Khail road...you can translate the height of the top of Emirates Towers to Burj dubai and it's basically still at the base of the thing.

I don't think it's a great achievement of anything like that (almost anything can be done with enough money) but it is ficking tall.

Jeeper

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...7262-2,00.html

Bit of a blurb about it.

littlejimmy

Jeeeeez. You really are a bundle of joy, aren't you?

kittycat1

crikey they get a bit close don't they! I think it looks taller from that perspective, it needs an average height skyscraper next to it to put it into perspective.

littlejimmy

That's what got me. You see the skyscrapers along SZR to start with, then the Burj looms into view. Yowzer. It is, as the guy said on youtube, like something out of a Star Wars movie.

commander

hohoho SZR is full of skyscrapers of average height..thats the point

shiva

to really put it into perspective you have to remember that some of the "small" buildings on SZR are amogst the tallest on earth

http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/wo/

Jeeper

Hardly.

Jeeper

http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=skyline_ranking

Patsy Stoned

I took my mother on the seaplane trip from the creek, it was wonderful, up the coast to Jebal Ali and then round the Burj al Arab then a circuit round the Burj Dubai, defo 1 for the visitors

Jeeper

I was thinking of doing that for some folks visiting but it's a bit pricey no?

Patsy Stoned

I think it is about 1200dhs, but for a 45 minute flight not bad, defo worth the money ..but ours was complimentary

commander

not really, its hardly full of low rises, is it?