Dubai - Desert Sand Rush

Since arriving in Dubai, heard most of the sentence is: Arabs since fifty years ago riding a camel in the vast expanse of the desert looking for oasis and water, suddenly discovered the desert is rich in oil, so all of a sudden from the camel jumped into the BMW. This quote graphically expresses the root of the Arabian countries to become rich, today's Dubai, vigorously develop trade and tourism, is expanding at a fabulous speed to the edge of the desert.

The visa to Dubai is very simple, can all be handed over to the travel agency on behalf of the organization, only 3 to 5 working days, it is worth noting that Dubai Friday, Saturday rest, Sunday to Thursday as usual.

Arriving in Dubai a few days before, has been busy in the Dubai International Exhibition Hall exhibition, until the third day in the afternoon to finish. I decided to take the time to play the long-desired desert sand rush - Dubai Tourism's classic must-try project, sand rush project must find a local travel agency to book in advance. Set off to the sand - the desert hinterland LABAB desert, located in Dubai and Sharjah between the two emirates, is one of the more ancient deserts in Arabia. From Dubai to the LABAB Desert takes 40 minutes to drive, off-road vehicles through the busy neighborhoods, fell into the eyes of all the lined up, unique design of the skyscraper, modeling exaggerated peculiar breathtaking, this is simply the world's architectural designers paradise.

Wide asphalt highways, endless streams of cars, and a tree-lined urban environment on both sides of the highway, one can never associate this bustling modern civilization with the grassless desert. Because of the lack of water, plants and flowers rely on irrigation to survive. Therefore, it costs thousands of dollars a year to raise a tree in the desert. According to the tour guide, in Dubai, the sign of richness is not the expensive caravans, but the number of trees in front of the house.

Dubai's specialty, dates, can be found everywhere in Dubai.

From the bustling city gradually into the barren desert, this journey is not far, but the prosperity and barren in my mind constantly collision, hard-working and intelligent Albertans in just a few decades as if the sky is like a night pool in the barren in the desert to create a paradise, so that the world's attention.

The Seven Stars Hotel

The panoramic view of the hotel from this angle looks like a beetle belly.

An air-conditioned bus shelter on the streets of Dubai.

A blue view of the Persian Gulf.

The seven emirates of the UAE have different colors of sand, and along the way between two emirates I really saw red sand, yellow sand, white sand. Each sand area is very different, different colors, as to why the color is different do not know, nature to the desert cover a layer of mysterious colors. Finally arrived at the sand destination LABAB desert first camp, a little rest, supplies, all laced up and ready to go.

On the advice of the guide, I armed myself with a thick layer of sunscreen, a straw hat, sunglasses, and a skirt and flip-flops before I set off.

Before rushing to the sand before the line, the waist also tied a scarf, which is in order to prevent the rushing to the sand in the motion sickness stomach and prepared. Before not forgetting to give the cute camel cub to say hello.

A spectacular fleet of vehicles lined up for the order to leave.

With great excitement, I boarded a TOYOTO off-road jeep, because I came to the sand alone, was arranged by the driver to sit in the front passenger seat, the same car in the back row sat a middle-aged German couple.

It is said that the best sand dune buggy drivers drive in the front of the team, to my surprise, our off-road vehicle driver Pakistani guy is the leader! Oh, My God!

The buggy just started in the desert tentative slow forward, extreme vision, all are countless uneven sand dunes, soft and smooth lines, the desert and the world connected to a horizon, can not see the road ahead of the road can not find the way, can not help but marvel at the life in the desert of the Arabs, riding camels through the vast desert, how to identify the direction, and finally found the oasis? Continuously rushed through several large and small dunes, the young Pakistani boy kept asking us: "Are you OK?"

"OK, Let's go!

"OK, Let's go! Seeing our expression calm, sure that we are fully prepared to accept a more exciting challenge, the Pakistani boy began to show its racing technology, gradually accelerate the speed of the car, to the deep desert, faster and faster, in order to let the tourists experience more exciting, the driver specifically rushed to the highest dunes and the lowest concave, when rushing to the highest place, the field of view of the desert in front of the desert suddenly disappeared, and saw only the blue sky, feel rushed to the clouds like, instant weightlessness. The clouds, instant weightlessness, and suddenly dive down at breakneck speeds, like a roller coaster with ups and downs, flying sand like smoke instantly over the windshield, rustling.

The first time in the desert racing, there is a kind of heaven and earth let me walk the sense of freedom, both stimulation and excitement, can not help but shrieking again and again, look back at the back of the German couples, the expression is still calm, a picture of the appearance of the waves are not not allowed to shame me. A cascade rushed through a huge sandbank, our car suddenly stopped, look back at the caravan following, an off-road vehicles flying down the roll up smoke like flying sand, very spectacular.

Experienced countless times the top and dive, gradually feel the stomach began to turn over, chest blocked panic, internal organs screwed together, chest tightened the scarf is still very difficult. Bumping along the way, and finally almost numb. Dizziness, just want to quickly reach the camp.

Thank goodness! Just when my stomach was getting too upset, the whole caravan came to a stop. All of us adjusted to the desert sunset. Opening the car door, I almost ran all the way to the sand and embraced the desert. The fresh air cleared my head. The fresh air cleared my head and whisked away my fatigue from the bumpy ride. The setting sun reflected on the curved dunes, coloring the desert a golden yellow, the soft lines as smooth as silk. Take off your slippers and step on the hot feeling instantly from each foot straight to the heart, such an experience is hard to replicate.

Midway break. Everyone jumped out of the car to have a zero-distance contact with the yellow sand and take pictures.

Outside the west, the hot sun is gradually replaced by a soft sunset, the herd of camels has slowed down the pace of fatigue, leisurely clustered in a group. The desert, the long river, the sun is round, that is the mood of it.

Now the camel is no longer the only means of transportation in the desert, but only used to please the rich, camel racing has become a leisure activity for the rich today.

A surprise watermelon discovery in the desert! Watermelon in the desert? How can a dry, water-starved desert produce such a hardy plant, blossom and bear fruit?

Finally, at dusk, our caravan arrived at a campsite deep in the desert. Next to the camp lay two camels for tourists to ride side by side to take pictures, and when the tourists rode on the camels, an Arab wearing a white robe and a white turban picked up the camels and walked slowly in the desert.

Sunset, the desert, the old Arab man holding a camel walking slowly, they are looking for what? What are they looking for? A water source, or an oasis? Could it be that they are coming from the fairy tale of the Thousand and One Nights?

After riding camels, we entered the camp, this camp is completely imitation of the Bedouin nomadic style and built, surrounded by a lot of tents on all sides, inside the wool carpet, the middle of the camp on the sand is a huge carpet, surrounded by a low table, cushions, tourists can sit on the ground, while eating food to enjoy the local style belly dance. The Arabs resist the boredom and loneliness of desert life in this leisurely way. When we enter the camp, we are first greeted with a glass of local horse milk wine and dates, which is sweet, refreshing and memorable. A wide range of pure beverages. The sweetness of dates, a local specialty, is not too sweet in the mouth.

Local women specializing in tattooing tourists, very skillfully with a pen similar to do the same as cream, will be squeezed inside the paint on the hands or body of tourists, less than three minutes of work a brown patterned flowers on the back of the hand jumped out, a minute later to scrape off the thick paint, leaving a brown patterned imprints.

This is my tattoo pattern, not bad, right? You can keep the mark for a week.

The Arab girls with their beautiful faces enthusiastically invite the tourists to **** dance with them. At the beginning of the shy tourists, in the scene of the enthusiasm of the atmosphere of the infection, began to fly self, stepping on the beat to follow the girls shaking up the belly.

In the Arabian music haunting sound, taste the local Middle Eastern delicacies and refreshments, enjoy the traditional style of dance. Desert smoke, distant music, camel, as if coming to another world, a distant world that only exists in the fairy tale, here away from the hustle and bustle of the world, all the bustle of the smoke and clouds have ceased to exist. What more could you ask for in life?

The guide said that in another desert area, there is a scary desert bar, open only at night. The sound of ancient Arabic music eerily passes through the dead silence of the night, bleak and dreamlike. Many people like to drive there, to experience this lonely and faraway atmosphere, empty themselves, let the mood melt in the boundless void, floating and floating.