Chapter 208: Abu Dhabi Palace Hotel
Zheng Xudong was still very satisfied with being able to get a Japanese benzene knife by accident, and after asking Xiaoqiang and learning that there was nothing else to gain this time, he went back to his room to sleep.
After another night of studying, this morning was when La Nina had just woken up, she was still doing yoga, and Zheng Xudong was going swimming.
After breakfast, I had to part with La Nina, this superb flight attendant cried so much that in the end, Zheng Xudong said that he would often come to see her, comfort her, and would come to serve her from time to time, solve her emptiness and loneliness before the flight attendant broke into a smile, and repeatedly asked her to promise that as long as she flew to China, she would come to meet her to coax her.
Before leaving, Zheng Xudong deposited two million dollars in her account and asked her not to be reluctant to spend it, and Lan Nina was moved again before finally parting.
The housekeeper found a professional tour guide for Zheng Xudong to take him to visit the Burj Khalifa.
Obviously, the housekeeper is very caring, and the tour guide he is looking for is a Chinese, and the Xiamen people of Fujian Province, Mandarin is okay, the two of them took a Rolls-Royce to the Burj Khalifa located in 1Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Blvd, the tour guide named Liu Feng in the car is very talkative, knowing that he is what people call the "magic boy", so they are also worshipping.
Coming to the entrance of the Burj Khalifa, the tour guide Liu Feng said that the tower has a total of three viewing platforms, 124, 125 and 148, all three are 500 dirhams per person and do not queue, if only 124 and 125 are two 200 dirhams per person but need to queue, 300 dirhams do not queue.
Zheng Xudong didn't expect it to be so cumbersome, so he directly took out $500 and handed it to him, saying that the three were all on and asked him to pay the money, in fact, Zheng Xudong originally wanted to let 148 do, there was no need to go all, but seeing that Liu Feng was also eager to try, when he thought that this was still a fellow countryman, take care of his business.
After Liu Feng paid the money, Zheng Xudong and he did not go to the long queue, there were hundreds of people waiting to get on the elevator at the entrance, they got on the elevator directly, and reached the 124th floor first, it was really very fast, Liu Feng introduced that this Burj Khalifa is a total of 828 meters, 162 floors, even if it takes less than a minute to sit on the elevator from the ground to the 162nd floor, it can be seen that the speed is fast, as for the world's tallest building, Zheng Xudong already knows.
Arriving at the 124th floor of the outdoor viewing platform, seeing the people and cars on the ground like ants, Liu Feng said that today's weather is more powerful, usually the people outside the outdoor viewing platform come to breathe the sandstorm, and the haze is more weather, and the sight is usually not good.
Zheng Xudong asked him if there was still smog here? Liu Feng smiled and said that there are sandstorms, what is smog! He also said that everyone has seen how good Dubai is from the TV media, but they have not seen the appearance of sandstorms here. Hearing Liu Feng say this, Zheng Xudong was not interested in it, and asked directly, is there any difference between the 125th floor and here?
Liu Feng said that there is no difference except that there is a small restaurant on the 125th floor where people can eat some small food. Hearing him say this, Zheng Xudong simply went directly to the 148th floor with him.
It's a scene here, there are not many people, although the introduction says that you can see the whole of Dubai here, but the 148th layer is already above the clouds, you can only see it when there are no clouds, but Liu Feng said that this is basically impossible, because the locals of Dubai are not able to meet when there are no clouds. Zheng Xudong saw that many tall buildings had a spire exposed on the clouds, and nothing else could be seen.
This reminded him of someone on the Internet who said that a certain leader wanted to go to Changbai Mountain to see Tianchi, but unfortunately as long as he went, there were clouds that he couldn't see, and he didn't see it three times in the end. In fact, Zheng Xudong and his father have also been to Changbai Mountain, but to be honest, they haven't seen it, and they haven't seen it when they hear many people around them. Fortunately, when Zheng Xudong was blowing the clouds open a gap, he saw Tianchi for two seconds, the time was very short, and the only feeling was that Tianchi was like a dark green mirror, calm like an emerald.
Standing on the 148th floor and looking down is no different from looking down from an airplane, if there is a spire that you can't see so many tall buildings on an airplane.
Out of the Burj Khalifa, Liu Feng wanted to find him the rest of the money, he smiled and didn't ask for it, saying that it should be used as a tip for him, and the money could be bad for Liu Fengle.
Zheng Xudong took a Rolls-Royce back to the Burj Al Arab, and when he packed up his things and checked out, the housekeeper told him that the room fee here had been settled by the Dubai government.
Zheng Xudong handed the housekeeper 2,000 dirhams, which was the fare to Abu Dhabi, and then took out another 500 US dollars and handed it to the housekeeper to tell him to thank him for the service he had received for the two days.
The housekeeper was not polite, and said "Thank you!" in his pocket, and then personally sent Zheng Xudong to the Rolls-Royce, until the Rolls-Royce had driven a long way away, and the housekeeper could still be seen standing there waving goodbye to him.
Leaving Dubai, heading for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. You can still see high-rise buildings on both sides of the city, but once you go out of the city, you can see six or seven large SUVs playing a game of sand rushing on the desert, and he can roll down the window of his Rolls-Royce through a gap, and you can hear the laughter and laughter coming from the desert.
In addition to driving a game of sand bashing, there is also a game to be played in the desert, which is camel racing, where three or five camels run along the road from time to time, and the Arab jockeys on top of it constantly whip their big buttocks, shouting the charging slogan that only their own camels can understand.
Zheng Xudong asked the driver to slow down and watched a few unique games, and he even had an urge to try it with them.
Excluding the time to go out of the city and enter the city on both sides, it actually takes about 40 minutes to drive on the desert alone.
Entering Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is almost the same as Dubai, where tall buildings are essential, the streets are lined with greenery, and the open spaces are covered with lawns everywhere, and it is conceivable that it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build such a city in the desert.
If there's one difference from Dubai, it's that there are more monuments, and from time to time there are mosques in the city, and the sound of people chanting prayers sounds like singing.
On the way, the driver introduced him to the Royal Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, which is located on Abu Dhabi Beach, facing the sea to the north and west, and is a classical Arabian palace-style building. Each palace has a legendary story with a strong national color. Just across the street from the UAE Presidential Palace, this palace-style hotel looks like a huge castle from afar, with more than 1,300 meters of golden coastline.
No matter how luxurious the driver is in the car, when you stand in front of this castle yourself, you still feel that any language seems extremely dry in front of it, and there is a huge square in front of the hotel, with a geometrically arranged lawn on both sides and a giant fountain, and the mist in the air forms a rainbow, if you don't tell you, you will think that this is a fairy tale world that can only be described in books. From a distance, it looks a bit like a mosque and a bit like a royal palace from the time of Sinbad or Alibaba. The driver said that each palace has a legendary story, and there is time to learn about it.
After stopping at the door of the hotel, the waiter stepped forward to open the car door for him, and then a young man in a white robe stepped forward to introduce himself and said that he was the deputy director of the government's general office and was in charge of the reception.
After thanking him for his bravery, he was led to the hotel, proudly explaining that Abu Dhabi Palace was the only eight-star hotel in the world, a miracle rising from the desert.
Zheng Xudong walked into this magnificent palace made of gold and marble, and he thought he had arrived at the Arabian palace in "One Thousand and One Nights". The lobby atrium of more than 3,000 square meters exudes the color of gold everywhere.
After entering the palace suite, the deputy director told him that he would come to pick him up at six o'clock in the evening, and that there would be a welcome ceremony at seven o'clock, and he left.
There are two men and two women in the hotel room, four service staff are available 24 hours a day, and after entering the house, they first give him a hot towel to wipe off the dust of his body, and then someone pours fresh milk to quench his thirst. There is also a tablet computer brought by the service staff, which is specially customized by the hotel, this tablet can control almost all the facilities in the house, as long as you move your fingers, such as all the lights in the room, curtains, TV, computer... The tablet also introduces the hotel's service facilities, gymnasium, swimming pool, SPA massage, various service stores, jewelry stores, almost all the world's well-known brands can be bought here, and like the Burj Al Arab, the service staff will come to serve you. As you can imagine, everything here was built according to the standards of the court. It is a palace prepared to satisfy the wealthy families of the desert, which is enough to make every guest staying in the hotel feel like a king. Zheng Xudong just took a turn around the palace hotel, and he could open his eyes to the luxurious life of the palace nobles, and it was worth a trip to Abu Dhabi, the richest country in the world.
Zheng Xudong entered the room from the outside of the hotel and saw a lot of domes, and the service staff introduced that the dome is a unique symbol of Arab architecture, and the general building will be composed of a large dome and several small domes. The Palace Hotel has a staggering 114 domes, all of which are made of mosaics, which is particularly magnificent and majestic. The largest of these domes can reach a diameter of 42 meters, is silver-plated and decorated with gold at the top. Zheng Xudong saw this dome in the lobby of the hotel, and it turned out that the magnificent decoration of the hotel lobby came from this way.
After getting off the bus just now, he only cared about talking to the deputy director, and did not carefully observe the decoration of the hotel, at this time, the waiter introduced that the exterior wall of the hotel is made of materials with sand texture, revealing the unique colors of the Middle Eastern desert, giving this magnificent building a rich Arabian style coat. The entrance to the hotel is a 40-metre-high triumphal arch made of Italian stone. A ramp of several hundred meters leads to the lobby of the hotel, where the interior is equally impressive. The 1,002 Swarovski crystal chandeliers hanging from the top are dazzling and dazzling. In addition to the finest marbles and mosaics, as well as the priceless oil paintings, even every sign is gilded and glittered, giving guests the feeling that this hotel has become a mythical "Golden Palace".
In addition, Mr. Zheng looks out of the window of the viewing balcony with a mile-long private beach in front of the hotel and two swimming pools the size of several football fields.
After visiting these Zheng Xudong, he took a cool shower in the gold-covered bathroom, and the summer in the Middle East was simply sweaty, and then he had a hearty lunch in the hotel's luxurious restaurant.
There was still a long time before the evening meeting, and he planned to visit the Grand Mosque, one of Abu Dhabi's most famous attractions.