Dubai is a place where dreams come true. You want something that they don’t have (yet), they’ll make it happen. Everything(almost) in Dubai is artificial. They have the best of everything, the biggest, the tallest, the longest, the insert-whatever-here-est.
We always believed temperature dips in the desert. Wrong! When we landed, the pilot announced “Welcome to Dubai, the temperature outside is 37 degrees Celcius”.Immediately as we stepped out of the airport, the heat got to us.
Checked in to Emirates Concorde, our room is awesome. The first time we paid for our own 4-star hotel. It was a great steal from booking.com. It costs us like 40 euros per night. That’s like staying in a dorm in Munchen. Made good use of whatever time we have here to go around the city before the desert safari. If anyone is to do a stopover here, go for the desert safari. I promise it’s the best 30 euros (yes more expensive than our hotel) you’ll ever spend.
They picked us up at our hotel, brought us to a desert where it all began. First of, dune bashing – basically means driving recklessly around the desert. Up on insane angle and skid down from the top of the dune. It was like an hour and half of roller coaster ride. Stopped at the camp where we could do all sorts of stuff. From camel riding to sheesha and heena. We watched all sorts of dances, had a great Arabian food buffet and called it a day.
The vastness of the desert was really astonishing. Not like I meant Dubai wasn’t, it is in fact quite similar to Singapore. Sky scrappers, developed lands, good metros and air conditioned everywhere. Dubai was awesome, but the desert was of a different scale. Watching the sunset, looking into infinity and beyond. It was one hell of a day.
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