Our second visitor from Australia, Carmen! Aidan and Carmen became good friends after working at Strandbags head office together. It was as if we were having our regular Newtown coffee catch up, except we were doing in it half way around the world.We took Carmen to the Emirates Towers to satisfy her handbag addiction at Juicy Couture, but don't tell Johnny! Then stuffed as much desert into our little tum-tums as we could at the desert buffet.
On the one day Carmen had off, we had big things planned for her. We had decided to take her to Hatta but lost our sense of direction and ended up in Al Ain, which is beautiful none the less. Before we headed off, we made a stop at the Dubai Land site office for Carmen to the site office to see the massive model for the project – but it was closed, instead we settled for spying on the beautiful sleepy tiger on the site.
Al Ain in a beautiful palm oasis town in the middle of the desert. When we went for a walk in the palm plantation, it was at least 5 degrees cooler but it felt so much cooler because of the greenery and hearing birds cheep everywhere.As like most tourists we covered more ground in one day then the locals. We visited:
- The Hili Gardens and Archaeological sight. The attraction was a round structure which is thought to be a temple, dating back to 2000 BC. It has relief decorations and carvings of animals and people.
- Giant teapots and tea cups to be found on almost every round about!
- Our final stop was at the live stock markets to see some very cute goats kept not in barns but on old utes that are used at permanent make shift as barns.
- The funniest thing was the local men who were tending the goats wanted to have their photos taken with Carmen for good luck!.....hehehe…..damn that girl is always popular no matter where is goes!
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