Indagare Tours: Helicopter

The audacity of this desert-turned-ultra-modern-city can only really be appreciated from up high. A 25-minute helicopter ride shows the scale of Dubai’s ambition as you see hundreds of glass-and-steel towers next to wide swathes of empty desert. Plus, you’ll fly over the man-made islands to get a very cool shot of The Palm and The World’s shapes (from land or even from the Burj Khalifa’s observation deck, the islands look like shapeless clumps of sand). You’ll also confirm that the Burj Khalifa is in fact two to three times taller than the surrounding skyscrapers.