I want a driveway like this
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very nice, but i'd prefer this one:
A breathtaking marvel: Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road (UAE)
http://renditions.wordpress.com/2006...tain-road-uae/
A breathtaking marvel: Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road (UAE)
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the greatest driving road in the world. Stretching for 7.3 miles and climbing nearly 4,000 feet, it boasts 60 corners and a surface so smooth that it would flatter a racetrack. It could easily be described as the eighth wonder of the world, but almost nothing is known about its creation.
The road is cut into the Jebel Hafeet Mountain, the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates, the oil-rich Persian Gulf state. The mountain spans the border with Oman and lies about 90 minutes’ drive southeast of the thriving city of Dubai. It looks down upon a dusty, desert landscape that belies a nation of astonishing wealth.
A bizarre history lesson
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road must have cost $100 million to build, but its origins remain shrouded in mystery. You can buy an enormous guidebook detailing the hydrogeology of the local spring, or the DNA of the resident butterflies, but info on the road itself is almost impossible to find.
Perhaps the real, unspoken reason for the road’s existence is a huge palace sitting on top of the mountain. It belongs to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the current ruler of the Emirates. His face also adorns a huge banner announcing the entrance to the road and it’s under his watch that it was constructed. This incredible feat of engineering is actually no more than a giant driveway. It’s enough to make Bill Gates green with envy.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan spared no expense when he commissioned the Hafeet Mountain Road. It would be easy to dismiss such extravagance as vulgar, but that would be to demean the majesty of the achievement. In every sense of the word, this is the world’s greatest drive.
The road is cut into the Jebel Hafeet Mountain, the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates, the oil-rich Persian Gulf state. The mountain spans the border with Oman and lies about 90 minutes’ drive southeast of the thriving city of Dubai. It looks down upon a dusty, desert landscape that belies a nation of astonishing wealth.
A bizarre history lesson
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road must have cost $100 million to build, but its origins remain shrouded in mystery. You can buy an enormous guidebook detailing the hydrogeology of the local spring, or the DNA of the resident butterflies, but info on the road itself is almost impossible to find.
Perhaps the real, unspoken reason for the road’s existence is a huge palace sitting on top of the mountain. It belongs to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the current ruler of the Emirates. His face also adorns a huge banner announcing the entrance to the road and it’s under his watch that it was constructed. This incredible feat of engineering is actually no more than a giant driveway. It’s enough to make Bill Gates green with envy.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan spared no expense when he commissioned the Hafeet Mountain Road. It would be easy to dismiss such extravagance as vulgar, but that would be to demean the majesty of the achievement. In every sense of the word, this is the world’s greatest drive.
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^^^
DA-YUM. Now I know what I'd do if I hit the lotto.
Hafeet Mountain Road, indeed...I'd be hitting that road weekly if I lived in the UAE.
Where's my application for the Cleveland Clinic's new Middle East facility, they MUST need a good neurologist....
DA-YUM. Now I know what I'd do if I hit the lotto.
Hafeet Mountain Road, indeed...I'd be hitting that road weekly if I lived in the UAE.
Where's my application for the Cleveland Clinic's new Middle East facility, they MUST need a good neurologist....
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OK, that makes much more sense now!
That's what I want to build on my own mountain!
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Hmm... I wonder if this is a gated driveway? If I drove past that every day on my way to work, I'd have to stop and do a few laps. 
And then hope my car is faster than whatever he races around there.
And then hope my car is faster than whatever he races around there.
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