Monday, April 06, 2009

Sorry for taking such a long time to update. I shall talk about our transit in Dubai. We had a 3-day-2-night stay there, where the first day was totally free. We reached the place at 6+am. Jet lag again I guess. All we did on the first day was walk one round around the place. The place was really warm as compared to Switz and Paris. Totally Singapore weather, without the humidity. We barely perspired. Ain't that great. Our walk was only done at 5pm. Hahaha... We took a pretty long nap. Came back and was lying on the bed watching TV again. They've got Korean channel (subbed in English), so it was the only good stuff to watch until evening where they showed "Mars Attacks!" (first night) and "Batman & Robin the movie"(2nd night). Lol...

2nd day was more fun. A city tour, a lil' bit of shopping (we requested), dune ride, camel riding and a "camp fire" dinner (where was the fire...). At first I thot it was pretty exclusive for us, until the dune ride where most of the tourists gathered. Because in dune rides, the cars get stuck easily. So it's best to go in groups. It somehow was similar to light roller coaster rides, but twice the fun, I guess? Haha. I felt like puking thou. =/

The tallest tower in the world. (Izzit?) Maybe at least in Dubai. =)

Largest aquarium in... world? Ok at least in Dubai too. =D

Sand Dune riding.

Deflating the wheels to have more surface contact with the sand, otherwise we'd get stuck...

Sand EVERYWHEREEE...

One of the 4x4 got stuck.

Picture taking. ^^ On top of a small hill. When we got down, it was pretty windy. And sometimes when you open your mouth a little, close it again, you feel like you're eating unsweetened sugar, SAND. Texture of sugar but no taste...

Camel riding~ Was I the only person who rode it twice? :O

Ended the day with a buffet dinner and back to the hotel we went. =)

Some facts I can tell you:

-Althou Dubai is an arabic country, it's still Okay to suntan nakedly (we saw that O.O), wear short shorts, stuffs that arabians don't usually allow, because Dubai relies on Tourism while having Oil. Heh.

-In the population of 4+million people, 3/4 of them are expatriats, only 1/4 of them are natives.

-If i remember correctly, in the whole land of Dubai, 80% is covered in sand.

-They've got this island called the Palm, that can be seen from the satelite that it's a palm shaped island. Fully man-made. Hahahahaha... one of Donald Trump's building will be there. Beautiful...

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