The Palm Island is a man-made island, in the shape of a palm tree. It is sitll under construction. It is a very very massive residential spaces undertaking. It is lined with skyscraper residential buildings, whose prices are absolutely through the roof. Typical prices for a bedroom apartment is around 700000$ ! There are also sprawling villas that are avilable for those who are so rich, that they do not know what to do with all the money that they have! At Dubai. there is always something for those, for whom nothing seems expensive.


The area of the Palm is around 5 Sq.Kms. The best way to see this exotic island is by air. The aerial view is simply awesome (see photo). There are 2 other Palms coming up namely, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira. There is abslutely no othere place like the Palm elsewhere in the world. Constructing this mammoth is definitely an engineering feat. A few years back, there was nothing here but the plain old sea. But now, after years of construction work, It houses several thousand extraordinary, supremely expensive, skyscraping housing complexes. Wierd? You think? Nah, that's just Dubai.

There is a monorail that runs through the trunk of the tree shaped island, that links the various parts of the island. Imagine this. Staying on the 40th floor of a skyscraper, built on a man-made island, near on of the world's most beautiful beaches, which overlooks a really really huge column of skyscrapers on the other side, with a monorail when you look down from the window situated near several malls, pools and an awesome marina. Whew!! It is going to take quite a while for you to get over that list.
Apart from the residential complexes, there are also several private villas and guess what. They come with their own private beaches. They also have their own 24 hr water patrol service, that constantly monitors activity in these waters.

To top this all, there is also a 6 lane underwater tunnel to link the different parts of the Palm! Well, I can keep on writing about the Palm. The post wil just go on and on and on. All I can tell you is that the Palm has to be seen to be believed. Period.