
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An astonishing site from 10,000 feet: Dubai’s coastline hosts an intricate network of man-made islands. Among Dubai’s archipelagos include two gigantic palm trees and a remarkable resemblance to a map of the world. But Dubai’s crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum couldn’t help but feel something was missing. Something that in its essence symbolizes the spiritual and mental hardship that the crown prince faced as a young boy in camel racing school in Mankhool, but also represents the physical conquest of his two wives.
The answer, a 5 km long set of islands, including a base of two circular islands, which in turn represent the prince’s two wives at the foundation of his empire. The middle bone-like island, which represents the strength and rigidity of his crown, will be used for the construction of the largest off-road camel racing track this side of the Persian Gulf, equating to a length of 50,000 camels in a single-file line.
Several smaller islands at the tip of the archipelago are largely being sold as residential plots to some of the world’s richest, best looking people, including presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and prop comic Gallagher. The feverish pace of development has transformed Dubai from a quiet black market organ-trading village of the 1970s to the United Arab Emirates most impressive emirate.
What some call the eighth wonder of the world, the $30 billion project that is reshaping this segment of the Persian Gulf, has not only attracted human tourists, but has the highest concentration of marine breeding along its coast say marine biologists. Many animal activists, who once protested the islands construction, now flock to watch the animals consummate. Scientists are attributing such a phenomena to the newly changed tidal patterns and nothing else. When asked about his newest islands, Sheikh Mohammed replied, “I didn’t really need any more, but my buddy bet me that I couldn’t get anyone to live on a giant schlong.”