The Dubai Fountain.

Before we left, everyone who has ever been to Dubai was saying "You MUST see Dubai's fountain.  You simply MUST." so there we were, wandering along the pedestrian boardwalk beside Dubai Mall ...

 The boardwalk outside Dubai Mall.
Keith's shot.

 Juliet's shot! 

... next to a pretty little bay ...

 The Bay! NOT!
Keith's shot.

Juliet's shot.

... looking everywhere for the sodding thing.

Couldn't find it anywhere so eventually we asked someone, and to our abject humiliation, turns out that the little bay WAS the Dubai Fountain.

Keith's shot!

In the background, 

that's the souk we didn't, 

despite the best of intentions, 

make it to.

It seemed far too large to be a fountain so didn't make sense until the music started and that's when we discovered precisely why the Fountain is such a legend:



We watched The Whitney, the one shown above, and it was indeed so beautiful it holds you breathless and when it explodes (shown at approx. 3.03) it's so exactly right it actually makes you cry:

Keith finally gets the right setting

on his camera.

 Juliet's shot!

And when it was over, we went to Starbucks on the boardwalk and had a cuppa and watched the next two shows - the exquisite Arabic one everyone raves about and a Chinese-esque one - and, despite not being able to see the whole thing properly, it was just pleasant and really very special.

However, you can't see just how great it was in our photos. You may recall how much fun I made of Keith when he tried to take night photos in Bangkok, and how I actually preferred the awful wrong shots to the relatively good ones he took after he figured it out ... well, turns out that he'd forgotten everything he learned about his camera in Thailand, and it was back to truly bad photos which I actually LOVE:

Us in front of Burj Khalifa.

 Me, as Keith sees me.

And how wonderful is this one of the fountain with the row of Arabic head-dresses at the bottom:

Keith's best shot!

 Juliet's best shot.

But the upshot of this wonderful experience is that we will now add our voices to the chorus of "You MUST see Dubai's fountain.  You simply MUST."

P.S. Our friend Juliet was in Dubai at the same time we were and I see that her photos - taken with her i-phone - are actually better than Keith's taken with his Nikon, so let's include hers as well so you get a better sense of this lovely place.