DUBAI DAY 2/3

Dubai offers all kind of enterteinment and among this the desert safari, that we went. It was a lot of fun even if not easy to book as all the agencies were fully booked because of the Eid 3 days festivity. The picked us up in front of the Marina mall (Dubai is full of malls of every size and type) and took us to another emirate (they have sand of different type and colour), to take a tour with the jeep in the desert, driving up and down the dunes.

After that we stopped at the camp where we could ride the camel  but we decided not to (poor guy), we had some sand-boarding and a nice arabic dinner with a belly dancing show. Very touristic but still nice.

Tanja and me decided to dress up for dinner and the result was:

But once back in town we decided to go back to normal to go out.....

And we went to 360, a very exclusive bar made on a round shaped boat, just below the Burj Al Arab and with an amazing view on Dubai. Very cool place.

Another great day and night.

DAY 3
Last day in Dubai. I'm leaving in the evening for Singapore, my 2nd destination.
We had a marvellous turkish lunch in JBR, a residential area made just by the beach. The incredible thing about Dubai is the speed in which it is growing. An example is this area. Just 2 years ago there was almost nothing here. Only the Hilton hotel and some facilities and now it is completely filled with high rise buildings.

After lunch we went to the petrol station (1l petrol = 35eurocent!! and it is the most expensive fuel in all middke east, btw they have no taxes on cars and they are cheeper to buy and maintain then in Europe so you can see a lot of amazing cars here - Porsches, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mustangs, looots of suvs and big jeeps...) and we had the coffee delivered in the car, that was another thing that I liked :-)

We went to then to the old city and the heritage area to get some insights about the past of Dubai. There is a very nice museum (the house of Sheikh Saeed Al-Maktoum) with pictures and maps of Dubai, place and people. It is really interesting to see how they were living here before the boom. Only half a century ago they were fishing for pearls in the Creek.