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Flew from Heathrow to Abu Dhabi
Taxi from Abu Dhabi airport to Al-Ain - a town
in the desert. Probably as far from the sea as you can get in
the UAE. Stayed here a couple of days - not much here but saw
some interesting bits such as the hot springs (too hot to dip
your feet in), the Hafeet mountains and a camel market. As usual
in the UAE, every town seems to have multiple shopping malls and
Al-Ain was no exception. There was also an old town where we could
wander along the local shops. Al-Ain was very hot but very low
humidity.
Minibus from Al-Ain to Ras Al Khaimah which is
up the coast near to the top part of Oman (Oman is actually split
into several parts with the UAE bordering each). Stayed here for
5 nights and while here we had a trip into Oman and went out on
a Dhow to see dolphins. Oman is very uncommercialised compared
with a lot of places we have been.
Coach down to Dubai for another 5 nights. There
is loads of building work still going on in Dubai and in a few
years it will be like a Las Vegas but with shopping replacing
casinos.
The whole holiday was very hot. May is about
the latest in the summer you should go. After this is gets up
to as much as 55c in the height of the summer. As it was, we were
in the mid-40c and even at night it was low to mid 30c. Madeline
said if we were in a house with a fire this hot we would move
away from it !!
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