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We're there!
only a 45 min drive from the city...Ah the desert I LOVE! (please excuse the bad hair... I had to cut it because my 5 hour mini-bus adventure in Malawi included having my hair blowing in the wind the whole time... needless to say it was pretty damaged after that! and it was very windy when we took the pictures...).
Anyway enough about hair!! This trip was only 45 minutes from Dubai and Arun's friend Jake personally took us there. Unfortunatly we left a bit late (at least I had a chance to get over my hang-over from the night before...) and didn't have a chance to leave with any other jeeps... so we couldn't stay too long in the dunes. But it was amazing! The sand is naturally of a reddish color and with the sunset was just breathtaking!
Jake was a great driver though we did get stuck once... but it only added to the experience and I got to dig out sand from under the wheels! Once it started getting dark, we had to head out of the dunes and to the desert camp! Basically it's a tourist thing where they take you a short camel rides, serve you arabic coffee with dates,
let you dress up, hold falcons, and then serve you tradionnal middle eastern food. At the end they had a belly-dancer come on stage but she wasn't too good... in all honesty she was too skinny and muscular and basically didn't have a belly and I'm not saying this out of female jealousy! Even Jake agreed...
I highly recommend one of these expeditions, as cheesy as they sort of are. Maybe it's my love for the desert... or maybe I'm just a sucker for cheese...
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