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My Dubai Desert Safari
Dubai Desert Safari
Since very beginning of my Dubai journey I got to read about Evening desert safari Dubai. Many individuals around urged to go with this on weekend. My first 2 weeks (& certainly weekends) went in settling down, digging down project specifics (naturally that was first priority!!) and also getting used-to plan. And so first 2 weekends I invested in Hotel room settling down and solidifying the project scope, boundaries & proof things.
Very first week of December’ 07, everything about project was very clear and I was all set to step out n N’joy. I made a decision to grab the first opportunity; this end of the week was 3 days in length. I rested on day which is first. Second day morning I ringed up travel representative workplace and booked the safari hold. I was waiting around eagerly till daytime since safari was slated to begin at 4 pm. Driver ringed up around 2.45 in noon, much sooner than scheduled moment of 3.30 pm. Driver, Amin Mohammed; a typical Arabian guy, 6 feet in height, using standard Arabic gown was longing downstairs with his large plushy Landcruiser for me. Looking at the automobile itself I guessed my trip was going to be among the best travelling experiences I possibly had. :)
We began the adventure of ours after finishing up “introduction ceremony” with one another. Meanwhile 4 more people joined us for tour. Being first to be learned I had grabbed the front seat in landcruiser which later proved to be the ideal place in Safari. With front seat you find the clear big view of desert in front of you and the best possibility to shoot good photographs and video of other automobiles in “cafila” too. Additionally you get a way to interact with driver easily to find out more wherever required.
I started bothering Mohammed with questions: “Where are we going? What’s the title of the place?” Mohammed might speak okay English if not great. AL Awir was the name of the place we had been visiting. thirty Kms off Dubai, this is the place where genuine desert begins and extends it’s boundaries up to far parts of UAE and touches OMAN.
We reached the place after an hour journey on highway. It was a little break of ten minutes at base camp because of this tour organizer just where around ten landcruisers got together to start the actual DESERT RIDE. The tyre strain of vehicles was decreased to cope up with softness of the sand.
The landcruiser began driving in desert against immense resistance being developed by softness of sand. Eventually the monstrous piece of equipment picked up high speed with its strength and we had been riding on desert sands up and down, on little n big waves, diving deep from top of the waves and going up small sand hills. It was altogether wonderful experience along with little bit of excitement. The one thing I skipped was; I couldn’t operate the unit myself!
Soon we reached the desert resort where dinner as well as belly dance show was arranged. Welcome drink was Traditional tea and “Kahwa”. Kahwa is sort of dark coffee. Me becoming a coffee freak, enjoyed 4 - five cups of Kahwa w/o sugars in 2 hours duration. People began relaxing a tad and also went for mehandi and “SASHA”. Sasha is traditional Arabian flavoured smoking pipe like Indian HUKKA.
After an hours time, Arabian design grilled chicken and meat kebab were served along with some Indian veg food. I was amazed to see the dominating usage of Indian meal over western and Arabian food. Even Rajma Rice and Dal was available!!
Half an hour’s passed by, individuals were relaxing after dinner and also Belly Dancer’s arrival was announced and in a flash, even before individuals would learn to realize what is happening; the belly dancer arrived on stage wearing bright white Arabian belly suit and she basically took the stage by storm.
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