- a bridge across the Strait of Gibraltar, including a 5-mile suspended span
- a single freeway connecting every continent (yes, I said “every”)
- an indoor ski resort in Atlanta (just a 10 minute drive from me)
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Dubai to build world's longest indoor ski slope
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/news/Dubai-to-build-worlds-longest-indoor-ski-slope/
By Helen Coffey, Ski and Snowboard Online Editor
5 August 2015 • 12:00am
Not content with the 103 or so Guinness World Records it already holds – including world's tallest building, longest handmade gold chain and, oh yes, largest tennis ball mosaic – United Arab Emirates is also going to be home to the longest indoor ski slope.
Plans to build a 1.2km slope in the city of Dubai were announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, earlier this month.
It's part of the elaborate Meydan One project, which will also feature a mall, 711m tower, civic plaza, 4km canal and marina with 100 berths. The development will span 3.67 million square metres, and the first stage is due to be completed by 2020. The cost of the project has not been disclosed.
Dubai already boasts Ski Dubai – the Middle East's first indoor snow centre – with five runs, the longest of which is 400m. However, it's not the longest indoor slope out there – and that's just not going to cut it for the record-hungry UAE.
The new proposed indoor ski and snowboard facility will knock current record holder, the Alpincenter in Germany, off the top spot. At 640m, this impressive indoor slope in the city of Bottrop will be little over half the length of Dubai's.
But why stop there on the World Records front? The complex is set to also include the world's tallest residential tower and the world's largest fountain, the latter measuring more than 420m across.
UEA's passion for record-breaking is hardly a secret; Guinness World Records had to set up an office in Dubai in 2013 to accommodate the plethora of record attempts across the region.