Desert Safari

While we were in Dubai we took a desert Safari. A driver in a Toyota Land Cruiser picked us up at our hotel. We drove for about and hour to get out of the city and into the desert were there where only highways and sand. Very nice highways everywhere, multi-lanes and lighted even in the desert. T

The beginning of our excursion was “dune busting”. They let air out of the tires and then drive through the desert dunes. The driver cranked the Arabic music and put the pedal to metal and rode the top of the sand dunes until it dropped of or became to narrow to and we dropped or slide into the valley. We knew it was serious when we stopped and the driver told everyone to buckle up! This was after going a while. Ha!

Our driver’s goal seemed to be to get the most other driver to follow him. At one point we circled back and there were about 8 other land cruises behind us and our driver was quite pleased!

There where numinous times we thought we were going to roll down the side of a dune. Sand was flying up and over the vehicle and the way the driver was working the steering wheel I was having flashbacks to the Thailand ferries!

There were two other couples with us the gal setting beside me got motion sick and lost her cookies a whole lot of times. The driver would just stop and have her bury the puck bag in the desert, say how it was all part of the experience and then we continued on with the busting! I felt so bad for her.

Towards evening we stopped at a desert camp to watch the sunset. Here we ate a traditional Arabian meal and watched shows of dancing including belly dancing and fire twirling. Here they offered Shisha which is the eastern name for a hookah, Henna painting for women, camel rides and Arabian coffee which is very weak almost like tea and sweetened with dates.

It was a great day and well worth having sand on every inch of us! Several days later I’m still tapping sand out of my tennies.