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Next day we drove to Al Ain, east of Abu Dhabi  
   

Next day we drove to Al Ain, east of Abu Dhabi

The roads are perfectly flat and straight. Either side are date palms and other irrigated trees and grass then desert with magnificent sand dunes. Only 50 years ago this trip would have been five days by camel. Today it was less than two hours.
Abu Dhabi

March 3rd 2006
As-salaam alaykum (greeting) from UAE in The Middle East. I arrived at Dubai airport at 5.30am so it was still dark. I got off the plane onto the tarmac to board a bus to drive to the terminal (this place is huge) and was hit by the cold! After Singapore I was freezing and had to put a jacket on, not what I expected. After a long process getting through customs I finally found myself outside the ... read more
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