Dubai

We continued our sleep prep to get back into Sydney time this morning with an early morning workout at the gym at the hotel followed by a leisurely breakfast (the buffet breakfast at the hotel is great!)

We then chilled by the pool for a few hours, soaking up a few rays on our last full day of our trip!

In the afternoon, we were picked up in a 4WD for our desert safari experience. We were driven out to the desert where we went ‘dune-bashing’ - kind of like dune buggying but with deflated tyres on a 4WD - which was lots of fun! We stopped in the middle of the desert to take some photos and do some sandboarding which was lots of fun! Daniel took a very embarrassing video of Gab flipping off her board when she was sitting sandblasting (she was totally fine - just received a mouthful of sand!)

We then jumped back on the road (after inflating the tyres of course) and headed out to a nearby campsite for a night of food and entertainment. We started with a very brief camel ride (less than 5 minutes) - Daniel’s first time and Gab’s second - which was fun. We then tried some local Arabic sweets followed by a starter of falafel and mimosas which was very delicious.

This was followed by entertainment throughout the night of fire twirling, a type of whirling dervish show (which also contained fire) and finished with belly dancing. Given the proximity of UAE to Turkey, it made sense that a lot of the entertainment was very similar to what we had seen a month earlier. However, the fire twirling show was incredible and we had front row seats so we got very hot!!

In between the entertainment, we enjoyed a delicious buffet dinner which included plenty of salads, fresh hommus, curries and bbq chicken/beef.

After the entertainment was finished, we made our way back to Dubai city straight to sleep as we have an early start in the morning for our flight home!Read more