The largest Indoor Snow Park in Dubai

This is the only place in the world where one can enjoy skiing when outside temperature in peak summer is plus 48 Deg C !!!!

 


This photo attached which shows construction phase as well. Money talks too much here & you will agree after seeing this!!!!!

The largest Snowdome in the world, containing the world’s third largest Indoor Ski Slope, has opened in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai.

 


Ski Dubai, 85m high by 80m wide, has to cope with average outside winter temperatures of 25C and summer temperatures soaring above 40C.

The temperature inside is maintained at -1 or -2C. Arabs who prefer to wear their traditional kandouras can hire black, knee-length padded coats.

The 22,500sq/m of piste are covered with 6,000 metric tons of manufactured snow all year round.
The $272m resort is the latest project in the emirate which is seeking to become a major tourism hub.

“Snow in the desert is such a Unique experience for locals who have never seen snow,” said Ski Dubai’s chief executive, Phil Taylor.

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Edelweiss? Sounds different I? I heard this word in a song from a famous movie The sound of Music.

The song really impressed me because of the lyric and the use of classical guitar in that song.

What’s really the word Edelweiss mean?

Edelweiss is a European mountain flower. The Edelweiss came from German edel (meaning noble) and weiß (meaning white). The botanical name for this plant is Leontopodium in Greek called leon (means lion) podion (meaning paw). The flower looks almost like a Lions paw.

The flower’s stalks grow to a size of 3-40 cm. It is found generally at altitudes from 1700 meters to 2700 meters. it is well adapted to climatic extremes. Due to its deep fibrous roots and the felt like covering of its leaves get protection from drought, ravages of winds and the potentially damaging sunshine.

Due to the covering of white hairs on the flower looks woolly white. In the center of the flower it contains 5 to 10 yellow flower heads of size 5cm, with a medium-sized leaflet to form a start structure. It blooms between July and September. It is unequally distributed and prefers rocky limestone places at 2000-2900 m altitude. It is not toxic, but has been used traditionally in folk medicine as a remedy against abdominal and respiratory diseases.

This plant is protected in some countries like Bulgaria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria and Romania.

After the description about the plant… Its time to see and listen the song from the movie The Sound of Music.

The lyric of the song is given below.

Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me.
Small and white,
Clean and bright,
You look happy to meet me.
Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow,
Bloom and grow forever.
Edelweiss, edelweiss, bless my homeland forever

Small and white,

Clean and bright,
You look happy to meet me.
Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow,
Bloom and grow forever.
Edelweiss, edelweiss, bless my homeland forever

Some interesting facts…

• Edelweiss Air, an international airline based in Switzerland, is named after the flower, which also appears in its logo.
• On the Austrian euro coins, a picture of Edelweiss is used on the two euro cent coins.
• Edelweiss is a theme and song (”Edelweiss”) in the musical and movie The Sound of Music, which takes place in Austria.
• On the Romanian 50 Lei banknote.
• Edelweiss is the national flower of Switzerland and Austria.
• During the Second World War, German soldiers occasionally pinned edelweiss flowers to their uniforms. The flower was supposed to be the sign of a “true soldier” in the Wehrmacht as it grows only in rugged terrain, generally above the tree line.
• In Austria, on St. Valentine’s Day, it is traditional for a man to present a woman with a bunch of edelweiss, the implication being that he has risked his life climbing up to where the flowers grow. In fact, a GM version is grown commercially at lower altitudes.