Chilling out in boiling-hot Dubai

Yousef Badr from Saudi Arabia, far right, enjoys walking at the Chillout ice lounge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday Aug. 9, 2007. The US$3 million Chillout, which opened in a mall in June, is the Middle East's first ice lounge and the latest venture in this desert Gulf emirate that has been transformed by a mania for the biggest, first or most outlandish. Almost everything at the restaurant is sculpted out of ice. Diners sit on ice benches or chairs, eat at ice tables, out of ice plates, drink from ice glasses served from a bar made of ice. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)Outside it was a sticky 111 degrees, but Ali Hamdan was shivering under two parkas as he sipped hot chocolate, surrounded by tables and chairs made of ice.



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