The Dubai Fountain Boardwalk Pier

Why is it significant?

Walk out onto the floating pontoon deck of The Dubai Fountain Boardwalk, suspended directly over the clear waters of Burj Lake. From this intimate vantage point just nine meters from the underwater nozzles, you can inspect the submerged mechanics of the world's largest performing fountain system.

Key Facts

Open the walk

Walk out onto the floating pontoon deck of The Dubai Fountain Boardwalk, suspended directly over the clear waters of Burj Lake. From this intimate vantage point just nine meters from the underwater nozzles, you can inspect the submerged mechanics of the world's largest performing fountain system. Designed by WET Design, the creative team behind the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas, this aquatic marvel stretches over nine hundred feet in length, equivalent to more than two football pitches. The gentle sway of the floating wooden walkway underfoot emphasizes your dramatic position right in the heart of this aquatic arena. High-intensity underwater illumination units shimmer through the emerald depths, hinting at the tremendous hydraulic forces preparing to unleash beneath the surface.

When the musical score erupts through concert-grade sound towers, high-pressure water shooters blast twenty-two thousand gallons of water up to five hundred feet into the desert sky. The vertical jets reach the height of a fifty-story skyscraper, illuminated by sixty-six hundred high-intensity incandescent lights and twenty-five color projectors. The sonic boom from the extreme-pressure 'super shooters' resonates through your chest like rolling thunder, scattering fine mist into the evening air to the delight of gathered crowds.

The fountain's eclectic choreography repertoire spans global genres, ranging from classical Arabic anthems by Umm Kulthum and contemporary pop hits to Andrea Bocelli's soaring operatic arias. The light beam shining vertically upward from the central fountain cluster produces a luminous column of white light so intensely concentrated that it can be seen from space by satellites and pilots approaching Dubai International Airport from thirty miles away.

The underwater robotic shooter nozzles pivot along complex multi-axis gimbals controlled by millisecond-precise pneumatic computer algorithms that compensate automatically for changing desert wind speeds.

Follow the wooden boardwalk to the southern shore and cross the illuminated arch bridge leading into Souk Al Bahar.