Reaching the tropic of Cancer Until then, the farther East I had been was the Asian side of Istanbul and the farther South Marrakech, Morocco. Now that I was landing in the United Arab Emirates, I knew I'd have to reconsider my list of the 'most extreme regions I traveled to'. Because yes, for the first time of my life, I was reaching the tropic of Cancer. As the aircraft was slightly landing, I glanced through the window. My first visions of the United Arab Emirates were pretty close to the clichéd articles I had been used to reading in travel magazines: oil farms, skyscrapers and sand ... a lot of sand actually. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and my first view of the area was nearly perfect. I could easily spot all
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