More in Abu Dhabi

On Friday we wandered around local streets and found a small Thai cafe nearby for lunch.
It seated about 15 inside and food was good. Ken enjoyed his Me Goreng and I enjoyed a mild Tom Yum soup with prawns. I was still getting over my cold and Ken was sniffling! Anyway, we went off for the desert safari about 4pm expecting to meet the driver to take us dune bashing, but.... he was over 30mins late! 👎🏻 However we did have fun on the dunes, going up steep slopes and sliding sideways on a few dunes, lots of fun! I didn’t even scream 😱 at all.

After the dune “bashing”, the driver took us to the village dinner presentation area. Here we could have Henna tattoos on our hands, take photos of a hooded falcon, and buy souvenirs before the first part of the entertainment. This was a make dancer with circles hanging from his waist,
When he twirled around the “circles” spun around his waist. The circles separated  and with lights out, the circles had green bulbs on them, and there were lights on his chest too. Looked great. Then we had some lovely arabic food - chicken and lamb  kebabs, salads, hommus and also delicious
fruity rice with omali as dessert. Then it was time for the belly dancer ! She apparently she came from Brazil. After her dancing, she invited everyone to join her on the performance platform and we joined her too to try out some belly dancing moves! Hilarious 😂

The next day Ken spent time resting trying to recover from his nasty 🤢 cold. Mine was nearly over, so I went off to see some of the city on the Hop on Hop off bus. It was good to see many of the amazing buildings nd hear history of the area. I did think of going into the Grand Mosque, a very imposing huilding, but decided not to wait in a long queue for entrance! Instead I continued to the Louvre where I had a great wander through some amazing 😉 exhibitions. This is an “offshoot” of the Louvre in Paris . Then it was time to return to the hotel and pack for our flight home.
We had a reasonable flight back  but then had to catch a train replacement bus to Gosford. That meant we didn’t get home until after 11pm, but it was so good to collapse into our own bed again.

What a great trip we have had - skiing, holidaying, seeing friends and spending time in Abu Dhabi!