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Time to go home
Today is the day we get ready to head home. We sleep late since we don't need to head to the airport until 4pm. Our flight goes from Cairo to Dubai and then a nonstop from Dubai to Dallas. We have a leisurely breakfast and go across the street to a hotel which was built in the 1880s and still maintained a lot of that time period. We then pack up and still have plenty of time and we walk the halls of the shopping of the hotel. Not very exciting but a ...
Our Dubai adventure
... The main attraction for us was the fact that there was a Ski field in the mall.
Fri 5th Oct:
Today was our Desert Safari Tour. We were picked up from our hotel and headed straight out into the Desert. Here we did what was called 'Dune Bashing', which was basically 4WDing in the desert. A fleet of 4WD's all go out together and have some fun in the sand dunes, which was pretty cool. The desert was quite hot, a little windy ...
Hi from Dubai
... everyone will just swerve around you, which they do!! Whilst in Ho Chi Minh we took a day trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels, which the Vietnamese used during the war. This was a cool day trip and the tunnels were tiny, most westerners cant fit down them, although they have widened a few parts so you can go through some stretches and experience a little of what it would have been like to live in them. There was also a firing range at the tunnels and I hadn’t fired anything bigger ...
Watch out for livestock
When I first arrived in Dubai, I stayed at a residence in the outskirts of Dubai. On Friday and Saturday mornings it was the perfect place to see herds of camels grazing.
Once I moved into the older neighborhood of Bur Dubai, even then I was able to see some local fauna. It was one afternoon on the way back from the local shopping center that I came across a family with a flat tire on the side of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Road. While the ...
Arriving Dubai
... to get to the airport for my Shaheen Air flight to ISB.
I decided not to wait for the group to be called. I overheard one of the crew members say passport collection is located in the Deck 4 dining room, so I walked over there and picked up my passport. Then I went down to the gangway on Deck 1 and disembarked Voyager of the Seas for the final time.
It was confusing trying to figure out where to pick up my luggage. I was directed into the main ...