Sunday 3rd August 2014

We arrived in Abu Dhabi at 6 am and got off our long flight, we headed towards immigration and had my usual do I need a visa panic! It was fine and we finally came out of immigration and picked up our bags which came out rather quick!

We met up with our car pick up and had a short drive to our hotel. We managed to check in early and got to our room and had a well needed shower! Our hotel isn't near anything walking distance to go and eat plus it is way too hot outside to go any where. We had some breakfast downstairs in the hotel before we headed up to the pool to relax.

It was extremely muggy and hot outside, a little unbearable and I had to move under a the umbrella before to long. We grabbed some lunch before we went back to the room for another shower and to relax a little before we got picked up for our desert tour.

We got in a 4x4 car and headed off, we picked up three Japanese guys and headed off into the desert! The first part of the journey was fine until our driver started going up and down sand dunes and doing hand brake turns. I actually thought we were going to tumble down the dune. Our driver was a mentalist I swear to God! He was hammering it up and down the dunes, I screamed a fair few times, more than I could count. We stopped a few times for pictures and it was warm and muggy! Too uncomfortable!

After an hour white knuckle ride we had finally arrived at our dinner location! It was great, we had seating on cushions on the floor before we were served our buffet banquet! It was really tasty! I couldn't eat too much as it was too hot! We watched some belly dancing and joined in, badly!

We left the banquet a little after dark and our driver was still being a maniac and was kind of glad once we returned to the main road, but he was still going at a crazy speeds! We arrived back at the hotel and had another shower to get rid of all the sweat and sand! We pretty much passed out soon after!