If it’s one thing you have to do when visiting Dubai, is the desert safari. Take a trip out to the desert and go dune bashing in one of the many 4×4s tours (we went with http://www.arabian-explorers.com). I was warned by some friends to sit in the front of the car if possible, unfortunately, being the last pickup means you take what you are given and in my case the very back of the vehicle. Lucky me, had no opening windows, lack of air-con and enough leg room for half a midget.
As we traveled out on the long highways, the sand slithers across the road in a beautiful swirling motion. Either...