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Take a day trip out of Dubai to the desert for a heart-stopping 4 X 4 thrill ride over the sand dunes. The tour company will pick you up in Dubai, in the 4 X 4 you will ride over the dunes in, and then drive you and your companions for about an hour out of the city. Once you reach the dune area, the tires of the 4 X 4 are deflated, and off you go! Up and over dunes, sliding downward, *sideways*, gunning it up a steep dune and hurtling over the sandy lip atop it....
When you think your bladder can't take it anymore, the driver stops for a photo op, and then off you go back to the tire-filling pump. To end the trip, many tours take you to a barbecue dinner at a bedouin "village." There you can ride a camel, watch a belly-dancing performance, get a henna design painted on you, and have your picture taken in traditional dress. Of course this is not a real village, but is just for show. Or maybe "shows." Leave a Comment Phone: 04-359-9002Other Contact: Unique Tours
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Less than two hours' drive from Dubai city is the ancient fortressed village of Hatta, home of the Hatta Fort Hotel, Dubai's only mountain resort complex.
The drive is as fascinating as the destination itself, taking the visitor through burnished sand dunes and mountains of varied colour.
Tours cover the recently-renovated old fort and a trip through Wadi Hatta with its lush greenery and variety of wildlife.
The village, over 200 years old, and Juma Mosque which stands amidst palm groves, are other tourist attractions. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.uae-pages.com/tourism/tours-and-safaris/hatta.html
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Sightseeing tours of Dubai city by helicopter are offered by Aerogulf Services.
Hatta Fort Hotel offers to ferry tourists from Dubai city to Hatta by helicopter. The trip takes tourists across the city and over the desert and the Hajar mountains.
Experienced pilots with a valid licence can hire aircraft from Dubai Flying Club on an hourly rental basis. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.uae-pages.com/tourism/tours-and-safaris/dubai-by-air.html
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You can easily hire cars in Dubai, but avoid the peak hour traffic. A Friday, our weekend, is a good day to drive. Once you're out of the city it's easy - good roads, good signage in English as well as Arabic and not too many roads to choose from. One good, easy choice is to drive to Hatta. Simply follow the signs.
You go past the end of Dubai Creek, with its wetlands bird sanctuary with flocks of flamingoes, and into typical desert, then into an area of beautiful golden dunes, where you'll find several companies offering motor bike and quad bike dune-bashing. You'll see plenty of camels along the way. Further on into the mountainous region and there's a whole string of pottery and carpet shops - very cheap pottery and silk Persian carpets for around US$100. Past an area with hilltop villas more like Spain than Dubai and into the village of Hatta, which is only a few hundred metres from the Oman border.
The Hatta Fort Hotel is a good place to stop for lunch, and a leisurely drive back to Dubai in time for dinner. Each way will be about one and a half hours. Leave a Comment Website: %cb%bhttp://www.jebelali-international.com/hatta_home.asp%c*%b
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If you love sea adventure and you have a diving licenses do not miss a diving tour in UAE. It is more that wonderful. It can be organized easily by one of the scuba diving center…….just do not miss the fun
U.A.E. COASTLINE:
Our Sandy Beach center offers amazing diving and snorkelling packages to some of the most beautiful dive sites of the Emirates on the Indian Ocean. Our custom built, high speed, luxury dive vessels take you to sites ranging from 85 to 30 minutes from our dive center in comfort and safety.
Our house reef "Snoopy Island" lies just off the dive centers beach and offers an amazing array of marine life for divers and snorkellers to enjoy. Accomodation and water-sports are on offer at the dive center's resort.
MUSANDAM SAFARIS:
Indulge yourself and join us on one of our amazing Northern Oman safaris. Come and discover the seldom visited and virtually untouched Musandam.
Al Boom Diving will take care of all the necessary paperwork and permits, as well as supplying snacks and refreshments during the trip. Snorkellers are welcome to come and see the sights normally reserved for divers.
This infromation from http://www.alboommarine.com/dive4.html Leave a Comment Phone: Amanda at +9714-3422993Website: http://www.alboommarine.com/dive4.html
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The United Arab Emirates' varied landscape supports over 390 bird species, of which 330 are migrants from Siberia and Central Asia.
The country's prime position on a migratory crossroads guarantees an amazing selection of birds, many not easily found anywhere in Europe or elsewhere in the Middle East.
Customised bird-watching tours range from a day to a week or more, and take in the full range of landscapes from Dubai's parks and golf clubs to desert, mountains and the Creek. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.uae-pages.com/tourism/tours-and-safaris/bird-watching.html
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