Forget about the Bellagio Hotel Fountain in Las Vegas - the Dubai Fountain is where it's at.Designed by the same California-based company, it is the world's tallest performing fountain, shooting water up to 500 ft in the air and measuring over 900 ft long. It sits inside the 30-acre manmade Burj Khalifa Lake at the base of the tower, performs to a range of classical and contemporary Arabic and world music, and boasts the following impressive numbers:
- Over 6,600 lights
- A total output of 1.5 million lumens
- Over 1,000 different water expressions
- Over 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment
True to form, Dubai has created yet another excessive and wasteful piece of infrastructure/tourist attraction, consuming massive amounts of energy and water and employing very short-term thinking (more on why I couldn't live here with a clear conscience in a future blog post).
But for now, below is a video I created using iMovie (my first ever). It is quite amateur, but you will get a good idea of what the fountain is like. It includes two separate fountain shows on the same night - the first show starts off slow and is a bit tame, but stick around for the second half of the video, which has the more impressive show.