Monday, 4th August - Whatever the Desert Between Abu Dhabi and Al Ain is Called
You can't go to the United Arab Emirates and not see the desert. At least I assume you can't. We'll spend an evening on it.
"It's a little up and down," they warn us as we get into the back seat of the four wheel drive. That's a slight understatement. The convoy of vehicles follow each other down into the valleys between the dunes and then need to get up the next one which means an S-shaped waggle and gunning it down thirty-degree slopes. A couple of times I ask them to stop for a few minutes. The second time I stand by a fence wondering if I'm going to vomit. I'm not usually all that susceptible to motion sickness, though I was as a child. Being in the back seat made everything much worse.
Afterwards we have dinner and some non-traditional belly dancing and an absurdly brief camel ride. This last is interesting from the point of view of being on the camel's back as it kneels down and stands up.
But it's basically an attempt to construct a tourist attraction out of nothing. We could have missed this without any great loss.
"It's a little up and down," they warn us as we get into the back seat of the four wheel drive. That's a slight understatement. The convoy of vehicles follow each other down into the valleys between the dunes and then need to get up the next one which means an S-shaped waggle and gunning it down thirty-degree slopes. A couple of times I ask them to stop for a few minutes. The second time I stand by a fence wondering if I'm going to vomit. I'm not usually all that susceptible to motion sickness, though I was as a child. Being in the back seat made everything much worse.
Afterwards we have dinner and some non-traditional belly dancing and an absurdly brief camel ride. This last is interesting from the point of view of being on the camel's back as it kneels down and stands up.
But it's basically an attempt to construct a tourist attraction out of nothing. We could have missed this without any great loss.
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