Mid East 7 Top Spots

In a previous article dealing with eco tourism, Green Prophet o whet your desire to do some “eco-touring” of the Middle East, where there is a lot to see – both from a positive as well as a negative standpoint.

Today we feature 7 ‘must-see’ locations from an eco-tourism point of view. So let’s put on our trekking shoes and begin in a very special place:

1. First stop: Masdar City in the UAE’s Sheikdom of Dubai, where futuristic cities are rising up out of the desert and self sustained environmental residential and commercial projects like Masdar City are being built.

The world’s tallest building, Burj Dubai, all 818 meters of it, is also being built in Dubai, complete with specially designed cooling systems to conserve water and special energy conserving lighting. Dubai also has other on-going projects, such as The World, an off-shore artificial island project designed to resemble a map of the world’s major continents when viewed from the air.

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