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Location Scouting Report #5: To Old Dubai!

It's morning on the second day of the scouting.
This day we checked out of the hotel at 9am.
As we started our scouting, the weather was nice and there was not a single cloud in the sky.
It looked like this would be another day where "The Water of Life" would be essential to us.

We had spent our first day collecting material in Abu Dhabi, which is next to Dubai.
Today, we were finally going to Dubai itself!
Even here in Dubai, there are old parts of city that aren't filled with glittering buildings.
As such, we set off to Old Dubai, going "deep" into Midde East culture.

The team was headed to "Bastakiya quarter", located along the "Dubai Creek" that flows through central Dubai.
This is a place established as a "historic preservation district" in order to preserve Dubai's history and lets you see a landscape filled to the brim with the exotic atmosphere of the Middle East as you tour it.



Our first stop was "Dubai Museum".
This is the oldest building in all of Dubai, built in 1787.
It was originally known as "Al Fahidi Fort" and was a fort set up to protect against invasions by neighbour tribes. It later served as both the ruler's palace and a prison, among other things, before finally getting converted into its current function as a museum in 1971.



The building itself displays a number of panels and realistic wax figures describing the history of Dubai's development.
Outside, they have a building made from the trunks and leaves of date palms, a model of a marketplace and a wooden cargo ship called a dhow.
Well, this is definitely something we can put in the movie.



There was also a traditional Arab building equipped with a characteristic "wind tower".
A rather unique tower-like structure sticks out of the roof, a contruction that sends the cool wind blowing along the walls into the building.
It's natural air conditioning!
When we entered this building... we were actually able to feel a faint breeze.

After leaving the museum, we toured the "Bastakiya quarter" itself. The old townscape has been left as is here, so we were able to see real wind towers on the buildings.
Even in the actual city itself, there are replica wind towers. They stand out from the skyscrapers and really help shape the atmospheric cityscape.



Source: http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/pokemovie_ch/?p=414