Emirats are dreaming about snow: Another Ski Doom in the desert

Arabia, a winterdream
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In Ras al Al-Chaima prevail straight 40 degrees of heat. But the prince of the Emirate dreams about snow: He builds an outdoor ski runway into the desert As the white miracle in January of the sky came down, were missing to the inhabitants of Ras al-Chaima the words. Snow - for this phenomenon there is no word in the local Arab dialect. Why also? It has whole two times in third-smallest that Combined Arab emirates since beginning the weather recordings snowed, last in January. And both marks was only those Point of the Dschebel Dschais angezuckert, of the highest mountain in the sheikdom.

For Ras al-Chaima citizen, the straight 40 Degrees of heat to endure must, are snow in Foreign word. For the ruler family Al-Kasimi it is the future: They want their desert emirate transform into an international ski Mekka. On the Dschebel Dschais leaves Prince Faisal, the son of the Emirs, straight that first outdoor Skiresort of the Arab peninsula build. Multitrack motorways lead of the coast up to 1900 meters the high Mountain, where the straight first luxury domiciles in Swiss Chaletstil to be established. Shortly the runway work is to begin. Then thousands of construction workers become from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia a net move from cooling coils and special mats in the rocky ground.

Up to five kilometers long and 500 meters wide is the departure rumors according to become: from top to bottom artificially snowing. That would be ten times as long as those longest runway in Dubais ski-resounds, to the past navel of the ski world at Persian Gulf. As in the alps the tourists are in an aerial ropeway on the summit of the Dschebel Dschais high-float. Allegedly that plans Prince even, after the Skiweltcup race to aluminum To get Chaima. „This is a singular Location “, says Michel Sakkal, boss of the national planning authority, the FTD. „One becomes in the bathing suit to drive know ski. “ So fairy taleful it sounds - to prince Faisal that means everything obviously serious. 120 millions Dirham (more than 20 millions €) the boss of racing aluminum has Chaima foreign trade zone already in its Winter dream invests. „The government becomes this project in any case convert “, says Marjam Al-Murschedi, the female assistant of its Sovereignty. „In two years it is finished. “

Then are thousands snow-hungry Arabs and Expatriates from the west the new Retortenresort visit - ski-resounds even if of Dubai is nearly always yawning empty. Technically the project is feasible. „One needs only enormous amounts of energy for those Cooling “, says Wolfgang Schmidt, boss of Skitrax, a manufacturer of special plastic mats for snow-poor skiing areas. „Meanwhile there is a special snow cannon, those even can produce snow with 30 degrees plus. “The Arabs might have however a political problem with the miracle machine: That Manufacturer comes from Israel.
 

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