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9 months of travelling … At 4am on the last day I ask myself, “What am I doing up at this hour???” Well the answer is simple … Yesterday Fábio was doing some shopping at Dubai Mall while Noah and I were down at the aquarium, when suddenly he called me and said, “Tomorrow morning you’re going to see the sunrise in the desert. They’ll pick you up at 4:30am.” 🙂 🙂
So there I was, waiting at reception at 4:30am when Mohammad arrived. I hopped in the car and two Canadians were already sitting there: Stephanie and Patrick. After almost an hour’s drive (we were just a few kilometers from the border with Oman), Mohammad told us that we were going to drive through the dunes (I guess to look for a good place to watch the sunrise in the desert).
The “ride” consisted of continuously going up and down the dunes … In a way it was pretty fun, until Patrick started to feel sick :O After about 20 minutes of zigzagging we arrived at the top of a dune and the sunrise in the desertwas patiently waiting for us, so we took some cool photos.
Finally the moment we had been waiting for arrived and a big red ball of fire appeared among the clouds on the horizon …
After the sunrise in the desert we continued our excursion, going to another part of the desert in Dubai where we had a short ride on a camel. It was interesting to ride one again after so many years, but of course the experience of doing it in a real desert was nice, and even more so because it was very short. The poor camels didn’t have to carry us for too long …
To be honest at the time my mind was focused more on what I had to do to finish packing than anything else. When I got to the room Fábio was still lying down with a terrible headache, so when I finished getting our luggage together we caught a taxi to the airport.
After this amazing sunrise in the desert with a camel ride, our next stop, and final destination: Tenerife!