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Saturday 3 November 2018

My Dubai Experience 1


Dubai at night

On monday 7th may 2018, i left the shores of Nigeria aboard Egypt air en-route Dubai via Cairo, Egypt. It was my first international travel. And the fact that i am travelling to Dubai via 


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On-board Egypt air A330-300

Cairo gave me so much joy because of the feelings of visiting the place i read about in the bible and the fact that i am visiting two countries on my first international trip.

  
  The airbus A330-300 touch down in DXB at exactly 4:14am  UAE time. The airport is a massive structure that spreads as far as my eye can see. Every 3 seconds, a flight either takes off or land.


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Dubai international airport


  It is the worlds busiest airport by international passenger traffic, and It is also the third-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world, the busiest airport for Airbus A380



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Emirates airline A380

and Boeing 777 movements, and the busiest airport in the world operating with only two runways. I was ecstatic about seeing Airbus A380 aircraft for the first time. I love the aircraft for it’s massive size.  After landing, it took our plane about 30 mins to taxi to the gate [C58] due to the massive size of the airport. I disembark with other passengers.


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At DXB arrival terminal.


  The airport is connected with alot of driver-less trains that takes passengers from the arrival hall to the immigration terminal. The trains are fast moving and it arrives every 5 mins to pick up passengers. I think their are more than 500 trains that picks up passengers in the arrival terminals alone. The airport is a network of different complex parts that work together as one. It is really confusing as you can’t understand it’s structures at all. CCTV cameras are everywhere you turn to. And there are no hiding places anywhere at all as the walls are all sealed up. Not even toilet. It also has alot of elevators and lifts. After i arrive at the immigration terminal, standing in front of me is a massive hall with a long maze.


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Driver-less train at DXB
 

  Surprisingly, there was no security checks of any sort at all. It was my turn at the immigration desk. The immigration officer looked at me and checked my passport. click!, he stamped my passport and return it to me. I was happy and glad that he did not pull me to aside. I went to the mini-mart to get a new sim. The networks available are DU, Etisalat et.c. I bought DU at 52AED . My international passport and visa was required to get a new sim and it is registered depending on the number of days you are spending in Dubai. It has to be re-registered if you are spending extra days and it is barred… And surprisingly, it came with 200mb to browse, 20 sms, and 1 hour call time. 


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A typical baggage trolley at DXB



  As i push my trolley to the exit, a custom officer pull me aside and asked me to put my bag in the scanning machine. When he saw nothing inside, he gave back my bag to me. When i got to exit, a Nigerian man approached me and told me he wants to change some dollars to Dihram{AED}. I took him to the currency exchanger. Later we talked and exchanged numbers. His name is Mr. Adelana. He is a psychiatric nurse based in Osun state. He came for a 3 days nurse conference. I took him to taxi park to board taxi and we go our separate ways. I exit the terminal and behold, it was bright out side. i checked time and surprising, time was 5:56am. I never expected the day to be bright at that time at all.
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At the arrival terminal entrance
 


To be continued……