Friday, May 24, 2013

The Road Trip


On driving through the emirates you find the most creative round abouts
They certainly love their roundabouts preferring them to traffic lights
They're usually huge
And show the local love of arabic culture and history
This even extends to a few petrol stations
On leaving any town there is always a sign like this
And then you drive along a motorway lined for miles and miles with palm trees, sometimes you see farms through the trees
But at some point the trees stop and all you see is the desert - and sometimes a few camels!

The super cool panorama function on dad's camera - spot the camels :)
Soon the landscape changes and the flat desert becomes a sea of dunes
A popular sport is to go dune driving
But we got hungry..
That fish wash actually pretty good ...
Continuing on it got pretty sandy
That's a natural speed bump right there!
Another thing to watch out for...
And there they are!
Awww
Awwwwww
But soon the police came to herd them along off the road
toot! toot
toot! toot! toot!
haha! so cute!
Later the landscape changes again
And we drive through the mountains
We stop at a roadside commercial centre, there's dad talking to an Afghan carpet merchant
An antique store
with more carpets

But eventually we cross the mountains and reach the sea!
Despite the heat, nobody is swimming. We have to drive on to the hotel :)

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