Lava shells are the latest trend in massage therapy. Unlike the regular hot stones sometimes used in massage therapy, the lava shells can emit heat for up to an hour, which makes for an out-of-this-world session of massage therapy.
The shells go through a special process through which they absorb heat and minerals, which later help the patient with pain and stress relief. You can’t just get such treatment at any spa, but in Dubai, these aren’t hard to come by as long as you don’t mind paying up to 200 dollars for them.
You Can Literally Have Gold for Dessert
Those of you who are familiar with the ancient story of King Midas know he wished he could turn everything he touches into gold. At first, he enjoyed the newfound riches, but that's also what made him starve to death as all the food he touched turned to gold too, which he obviously couldn't eat. Well, apparently Midas has never visited the Scoopi Café in Dubai.
Scoopi Café serves gold ice cream, which is the most expensive ice cream in the world. This luxurious dessert is served in a Versace bowl and consumed with the help of a gold spoon.
Golden Facials Are Real
Luxury spa treatments are nothing new. It seems like wherever you look people are trying to harness the power of the earth's flora and fauna to preserve their youth. One such trend is using a golden mask in facial treatments.
You might think you can get some gold-colored beauty masks at any beauty product store, but the percentage of actual gold in that mask would be minimal to non-existent. In Dubai, however, they don't settle for anything less than 24K of the real thing. The Jumeirah Zabeel Saray spa offers a full facial with a 24K gold mask.
Readers' Paradise
Have you ever read a book so good you wished you could live in it? Well, thanks to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library in Dubai, you can be one step closer to living in a book. The library building is designed to look like an open book, which is so cool it's surprising no one thought of it sooner.
The seven-story building houses hundreds of thousands of books, which means that book lovers who walk in will never want to walk out.
Most Guinness World Records in Mena
If you've been paying attention there's no chance you slept on the fact that Dubai breaks records for breakfast. The UAE has over 400 Guinness World Records (Yes, 400!) and Dubai itself is responsible for 60% of those.
Its Miracle Garden, which you can see in the picture, has three records, while Burj Khalifa holds eleven. Dubai is also known for breaking uncanny records no one else could even think of, like the longest underwater live radio broadcast (we didn't even know you could broadcast underwater!) Even weirder — a record for most people to parachute from a balloon simultaneously, which is like, what? But hey, they know what they are doing.