We flew with air Arabia to Sharjah which is a city that neighbours Dubai in the Emirates and had a 24hr stopover. Knowing that the oppurtunity to see Dubai does not come too often we decided to get a place to stay in Dubai (we arrived at 11pm) and spend the next day sight seeing etc. We were to be dissapointed as the cheapest hotels we could find started at 40euros per bed and coming from Ýndia we were not willing to spend that, so using our heads and thinking outside the box we came up with a great idea and killed 2 birds with one stone !! We went to the car hire desk and found a car for 25euros and decided to use it as both a hotel and transport for our brief stay in Dubai !! Genius !!!
We drove our "hotel toyota" to a beach that neighbours the massive 7 star hotel and settled in for the night !! The sun woke us early on sunday morning and after a quick swim it was into town for breakfast and to plan our day.
After a great 3 cheese omelette we found the amazing indoor ski slope that is one of Dubais famous attractions and although Ý have never skiied before Ý let Jimmy talk me into doing 2 hours without instruction and away we went !! Jimmy is quite experienced and after a quick "crash course" on the practice area Ý took the plunge and went to the high slope and went for it !! Needless to say Ý spent a lot of time "eating" snow but after 2 hours was able to do the full run (jumps and all) without falling over and looking stupid !! Ý finished off thinking that this is something Ý really have to do again soon !! The rest of the day was spent driving around looking at some of the sights and taking pictures and having a quick look in some shops ................ finding that the myth of cheap bargains in Dubai is definately not true !!! We were a little dissapointed with the city itself because it is basically just another big high rise city just like so many others although it is remarkably clean and has some incredible buildings.
And so at 6pm we made our way back to the airport to give back our "hotel" and catch our onward flight to Istanbul !! More thumbnails ...
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