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A refrigerated Dubai beach to keep your feet from burning!
London:
Environmentalists may have more to worry about after
the world's first refrigerated beach is unwrapped in blistering
Dubai - so that wealthy travellers can keep their feet
from burning. The avant-garde coastline, which will be
making waves while neighbouring the posh new Palazzo Versace
hotel in the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates,
is due to open in late 2009 or early 2010. The normally
blazing sand is to be controlled with a computer-linked
system of coolant-filled pipes to keep at-ease temperatures.
Visitors wishing to beat the 50 degree Celsius heat wave
could take a plunge in a cooled swimming pool or simply
feel the gentle wind generated by huge blowers. The gimmicks
at the 213-room hotel have incurred the wrath of campaigners
who condemned the idea for adding to the climate change
troubles. "Dubai is like a bubble world where the things
that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate
change, are simply ignored so people can continue destructive
lifestyles," the Sun quoted Rachel Noble, of Tourism Concern,
as saying. However, Soheil Abedian, president of the company
that owns the Palazzo Versace, said: "This is the kind
of luxury top people want."
-Dec
15, 2008
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