Took a taxi to the Grand Mosque. Amazing place, incredible workmanship. I had to wear the black gear - incredibly hot.. We couldn't remember Kay's address to get the taxi back, so showed the driver a photo of a distinctive nearby building which he said he knew, but he took us to the wrong place! (People don't actually have a letterbox address there). We ended up at Abu Dhabi Mall, from where we found a taxi to take us to the right place.
At 4.30am we embarked on a Desert Safari courtesy of Kay, who booked it for us. We took a while getting there, picking up other passengers from a new suburb called Desert Village, inhabited exclusively by foreign workers, then driving an hour or so to the real desert, where we did dune bashing, camel riding, eating, drinking (a Fosters beer was out of our price range so we had Coke), watching belly dancing and also watching people smoking shisha. I might have partaken many years ago, but couldn't cope now.
We eventually got back to civilisation about 10 pm - 500 dirhams (A$124)well spent.
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| Just this once |
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| Deflating tyres |
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| Not so soft |
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