The Dubai Festival City offers up not only incredible dining options, cafes, shopping markets and many five star Dubai Hotels, but beautiful parks, and spice and perfume shops as well. Dubai is becoming a garden city. For along with construction on some of the most incredible architectural wonders, and the development of the downtown area, city planners are putting in parks filled with trees and flowering plants. For many of the residents, this creates facilities for recreation and gatherings, as well as the increased ambiance that the beauty of such well designed gardens and parks offer to those living in big cities. Just as Grant Park is for the citizens of Chicago, Central Park for those living in Manhattan, and Griffith Park for those in the city of Los Angeles, parks in major metropolitan cities around the world sometimes offer the only getaways during hectic day to day life. In the new Dubai Park, there will be vast areas of landscapes, and play grounds and ball parks for the children. There will also be an outdoor shaded area filled with palm trees and benches. A running path will cut through the park, and there will be volleyball nets, and basketball and tennis courts. All the parks of Dubai offer these recreational facilities and the gardens serve to protect and enhance environmental conditions in a city that is becoming quite populated.
The parks also create the perfect atmosphere for many of the outdoor shops and markets, making it a thoroughly enjoyable experience for locals and tourists spending the entire day wondering through the city and checking out the local flavors and scents. One such place to enjoy both is the Spice Souk. Dubai has been trading rare spices and ingredients for one hundred years, and this area is still the most important and the most visited throughout the entire region of the Gulf. This is the perfect stop for tourists wanting to take some of the exotic flavors and rare ingredients back home. This is a small shop, but is a sensory wonder as the aromas of ginger, cinnamon, saffron, frankincense, and chili fill the street. Incense and herbs are significant in the daily lives of the Arabs. The Perfume Souk offers perfumes and a variety of essential oils in beautiful bottles, and one can have their very own scent created based on the oils and herbs that react best with ones own lifestyle. This is a great souvenir to bring home, as the scent of the this wonderful city will stay with one long after the journey is over.
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