Dubai has the largest terminal I've ever seen. It takes 46 minutes to walk from one end to the other according to the signage. It's also packed with duty-free shops and seemingly-endless restaurant options, although when you're famished, the walk to get to ANY restaurant felt like a life time. I was pretty close to giving up and busting out a power bar before we finally managed to find a café. After wolfing down our meal, we decided to continue exploring the...

Despite getting into Dubai in the wee hours of the morning, the first thing I experienced was the dry heat. It must've been close to 40C degrees. Breezing through the super-empty immigration lines, we were in bed at the Admiral Plaza Hotel within the hour. Not wanting to waste a moment of our now-truncated layover, we took a four-hour power nap and by 7.30am, we were in a taxi headed for the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. The only problem? Appar...