Desert Safari..

The desert trip was supposed to start at 3:30..and it got postponed to 4..thankfully some time to rest after the medical test...come on now even half an hour makes a lot of diff... :)There were around 133 of us for the trip so there were 3 buses for us..

The bus trip was short and sweet and we reached the desert soon..Then we entered the four wheel drive car for sand dune bashing to reach the camp in the middle of the desert..
Sand dune bashing was awesome..in my car there was Ashwath, Ishita, Vinay, Uday, Julie and Shruti. I dont remember the driver's name but he was from "Peshawar"..Then started absolute fun for next 15 or so minutes..The highs, the lows, the skids and the crash into sand dunes were all there..well shruti was the loudest in cheering and that really boosted the ego of the driver who decided to give us a little longer trip..with more jerks in the cars..

Finally we reached the camp..then started the photo session for Orkut..after some time it got boring and the gang decided to do race..we were really dumb on this..'cos our racing tracks passed the tracks of the cars..we did not notice this..I was the judge and I officiated the race..the loser was supposed to be buried in the sand...Uday, Ashwath, Vinay, Shruti and Ishita started running very fast down the slope..all of a sudden we could see..Humpty Dumpty Shruti and Ishita giving 90 degrees fall in the sand..too cool stunts..unfortunately not captured in camera..well we did not even need to bury the losers in the sand..they were already in it :)thankfully not seriously hurt..

Now comes the interesting part..we could see the other group of cars coming and they were all headed for us..we were sitting on the Car tracks of sand bashing..total phat gayi...in the cars were our friends sitting who were encouraging the drivers to just bash us instead of the sand..even bribing them :P...we ran at top speed through the sand to reach the top of the hill and we were safe..one great stunt for the day..

After this came the camel ride....i think they were "HE" camels 'cos whenever the girls went near them..they went ahead to kiss them ;)..really freaked out the girls..finally the girls were no more fun then the camels decided to explore try new options..so it was guy's turn to be surprised..After the short trip, well the camel ride was really short..only meant for photo session..but it was fun..

Now we had option to do racing on quad bikes..30 AED for 15 minutes..well since we did not have license to drive in Dubai we decided against it...just kidding...license is not required in the middle of the desert.. :DWe saw a Quad bike just parked near the fence..apna Indian dimaag chalu...photo session karo..and send it to friends..that i was driving quad bikes in desert.. :)

After that we decided to go towards the camp...no the belly dancers had not come..there was a "HUMMER" parked there..phir se photo session chalu..photo with HUMMER in all angles..top view, side view, even bottom view :)Finally, we models were really tired posing and decided to take rest for some time..and explore the camp..

In the camp were dresses of Arab people..male as well as the female..phir kya tha...guys and girls started wearing them and then photos of the ARAB couples started getting clicked..left and right..Inside that attire it was freaking hot..5 mins and I was sweating..2-3 photos and I was out of the dress

Viewing around..we decided to walk up the hill to get the whole view of the camp...well the climb was steep and thats when we realised..apna stamina kitna hai..i guess we are really getting old real fast :)eventually we reached the top and it was worthwhile..awesome view..coming down was really easy.. :)

Some enthu people in our batch started singing...you know what it takes to start a mandli..4-5 Indians and 3-4 Fosters can is all it takes to bring out all the songs of Hindi films...some foreigners were really dumbstruck as to what we were doing...they started filming them..rest of us were used to this back at home so it was normal for us...

Tried out the "Sheesha" which was there..did not really like it..so just hung around there...observing people around..some people were getting "High" out of even sheesha and started singing over there also.. :)

There was a counter where girls were applying henna..even guys were getting designs of Henna done on their arms..I had a small design of Sun done on my Arm..which I removed it soon as it started to itch after some time so I washed it off..

Finally came the dinner announcement, we were all famished...food was good but I finished it very quickly since the "Belly Dance" was about to start...
"Belly Dance" - It was too good and it is very difficult to describe it here...no words can do justice to it...you have to be there to experience it...The belly dancer pulled some guys and girls from our batch on to the stage..well there were some foreigners but our batch of 130 people really dwarfed them out..i think they were some 30 in number..initally they were shy and then even they started rocking to the tune..

Phir kya tha..it was ride back home..we were really exhausted..the spirits were still soaring..The trip ended on a high and now ready to hit the course..
The whole desert safari trip was awesome..100 AED thats something like Rs. 1200 for the trip was fullto paisa vasool..

~kushaal