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The Burj Khalifa View of Dubai From the Back of an Eagle

TIME : 2016/2/29 16:30:21
The view from the Burj Kalifa

Thought your weekend was productive? A trained eagle named Darshan is here to put your weekend-catchup-to-coworkers to shame. On Saturday, Darshan soared 2,700 feet above Dubai, to the top of the city’s vertigo-inducing Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower. The flight purportedly set a world record for the “highest-ever recorded bird flight from a man-made structure.”

The best part? He did it all with a camera on his back.

The result is a dizzying panorama of Dubai’s famous developments—and the patches of gray earth and turquoise pools in between. Have a watch: