THEhe scorching rays of the sun crash into the canvas roofs erected all along the avenue, while fountains of water spring to the ground amid the shrubs. Hundreds of foreign visitors have taken advantage of the relative leniency of the UAE winter, with temperatures not exceeding 30 degrees, to go to the World Expo, held this year in the cosmopolitan city of Dubai. Black, white, Asian or Indian, dressed in simple denim shorts, the traditional abaya or the western crop top, tourists flock to the paved path to access one of the 192 country pavilions, inaugurated on September 30th.
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