Tuesday, April 29, 2008

DAY 142 - 144: LAST DAYS IN DUBAI


Dave and Fintan in the Dubai Desert


We made the most of our last few days in Dubai by getting ourselves back into some sort of health by eating 3 meals a day again, having decent sleeps and going to the gym again.


Rhys and his Dune Buggy

After constantly putting it off, on our last day we took a day trip out on a desert adventure tour which kicked off with a dune buggy drive. Bouncing through gigantic sand dunes at over 60km/h in nothing more than a cage attached to a motor is definitely one of the most thrilling ways to experience the desert. Getting a bit cocky, we began to lose the run of it, tearing through the sand until Dave wrote his buggy off in a spectacular hurdle attempt.


The boys on some camels

After this high paced madness, we took a quick camel ride to a desert camp and gathered with other travelers for a barbeque, belly dancing and some sheesha, a favourite of ours since entering the Middle East. This flavoured tobacco smoked through a tall pipe and filtered through gurgling water, is an indispensible part of Arabian social life and a relaxing way to end the day.

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