Believe it or not this was the view from my room at the Shangra-La hotel in Abu Dhabi. This is the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan Grand Mosque. Third largest Mosque in the world after Mecca and Medina. I was AD and Dubai for a work project it was hot hot hot. so I didn't really spend a lot of time looking out of my rooms windows. But finally after my last of three days locked up in airconditioned meeting rooms, I went out on the rooms balcony and turned to the right. OMG, I nearly fell over the railing. The sun was setting and the white structure was just glowing. Its really huge.

Quite a sight.