What Isn’t There to Do in Dubai?
Posted on Nov 09, 2009 under Travel | No CommentAfter a 14 hour flight from Brisbane, we arrived in Dubai. It was already 32 degrees at 6am! We quickly cleared customs and the heat wave that hit us as we walked out of the airport was staggering. We then took a taxi to our 4 star hotel Dubai where we met up with Winona and Josh, who have been in Dubai for a week.
Because of the heat, we decided to spent the day at the Wild Wadi Water Park. Besides, most of the markets and shops aren’t open till 4pm. The park was fantastic! There was body boarding, which we did over and over again. We kept trying to get up on our knees; I was successful only once. The highlight of the park is the speed slide, I’ve never slid so fast in my life; ended up with some pretty good wedgies by the time I hit the bottom. My bathing suit turned into a G-string.
After we exhausted ourselves at the water-park, we headed over to Deira City Center Mall. It’s this massive place with hundreds of shops. Plenty of cheap electronics, which is great because Dubai is tax free. We only spend an hour, we were so overwhelmed that it exhausted us the same as the water-park. But, we just had to take a taxi to the Gold Souk. We arrived around 6pm and the heat was nearly 40 degrees. We both didn’t like what most of the Gold Souk’s had to offer in the way of jewellery, just wasn’t our taste, but I did buy this extremely nice white gold ring with a small beautiful diamond set in it, and I got this smoking deal! 60 percent off! I was so happy with my very first purchase of Dubai gold.
We were so tired from all our travelling, body boarding, shopping that we ended up going back to our hotel room without dinner and fell fast asleep. It was only 8pm! But, we wanted to be very rested for our adventure tomorrow. We’ll be riding in 4 x 4’s through the sand dunes!
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