Dubidizzle

Sat 30 June

We left Bangkok this morning, back on emirates yay me like their planes, it made a nice change from budget airasia flights, I love the movies.  We entered Dubai on our british passports, so later bo to our NZ ones for awhile.  Our hotel was only 4 train stops from the airport and was so easy to find, boy was it roasty when we got out of aircon and walked maybe the 600 meters to our hotel, so so hot I think the temperature was around 40 degrees.  What a score when we checked in we got upgraded from a standard apartment to a superior apartment! 

our sweet apartment 

We were stoked and it was freaking massive so that was lovely to have all the space like our own little house, AND a kitchen.  So we hit up the supermarket that was across the road and made a little feast for our dinner and mooched watching tv.

Sun 1 July

Today we were wowed by the 2 malls we went to, the Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates.  The Dubai mall was the first stop we made, and we did the aquarium (in the mall!) it slapped Kelly Tarltons in the face that is for sure, and there was a little “zoo” that we also went through but it was mainly creepy crawly things.  

the tallest tower ya'll

a pretty souk in the mall

10 million litres, 20,000 fishies

the glass bottom boat 

skating rink in the mall

Ell had discovered before we left that there was a burger fuel in the mall, so we had that for lunch, daricious, and was also really cool to hear Kora playing while we were having lunch in the massive foreign food court.

We went back to the Dubai Mall after dinner to watch the famous fountain, it was beautiful

Mon 2 July

We hit up the Burj Kalifa today, (the tallest building in the world people) the lift was super fast up to the 124^th floor that you view from.  It was a bit cloudy so we could not see that far out, but what we could see was impressive.  

the circly things is where the fountain is

check out that brow, how you doin

maaasive naan bread, your not the only
one who thinks it looks like a penis

The train in Dubai is awesome, we got a pass that meant we could do as much train/bus as we wanted all day for $5! Most excellent.  We got on the train after with the intention of seeing the palms, so got off at the marina and expected a bus to be there (yea nah we didn’t do the research in this case) so walked to the beach.  It was so  hot it was like pushing slowly through the air as you walked, challenging much when I am wearing my non offending muslim people outfit (full length skirt with scarf wrap) so sweating much.  The beach was boiling, we splashed our feet round for a bit then gapzd for some shade.  

It was so hot we couldn’t be bothered getting out to the palms so headed back to our hood for some quality time with the aircon.

Tues 3 July

Vegetated all day today,  and got picked up around 4ish for our Desert Safari whoop whoop.  There was us 2, our guide, and a Mexican family of 4 in our truck.  The dune bashing was heaps of fun, the 2 little girls were in the back of the truck and every now and then you would hear the thump of them bashing into the side of the truck when they weren’t holding on properly (the evil child in me laughed when I heard this).  

Flat tyre, so photo opportunity

There was heaps of tour trucks driving round the dunes, I do wonder how many crashes they must have with all these trucks zooming over dunes without knowing whats on the other side.  The camp was really cute, I got some henna done, we rode a camel (maybe the distance of 50 meters..) and some sheisha and then the shows started.  It was neat watching the people doing their thing – yay for cultural shows.