Do you like activities?
On the subject of weekends in the UAE, talk centred on what one can do in various emirates, when the weather is hot, and otherwise.
Scuba-diving, off-roading, mountaineering, and the likes, so this tourism professional professed.
Many people do these, and I do not.
I simply like to sit in a chauffeur-driven car and survey the desert: that is my preferred landscape; my preferred leisure-time. I need no "activities" to fuel my desire for this formidable, wavy desert landscape: "barren", as those with limited vision may describe.
Just looking and admiring is my activity when it comes to the outdoors. Exercise your eyes, and you will find.
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I'm with and without you on this one. I have no wish to roar up and down the dunes in 4*4, still less in an overgrown go-kart, and I can happily watch the sea without hankering for a jet-ski or sail-board. But when it comes to the chauffeur driven car, yes, that's a good enough way of getting somewhere but, once there, I've got to get out and walk. From inside, you can experience the desert with your eyes alone. As a walker, the relationship is complete, balanced, natural and healthy.
You & I can see the beauty of a desert. It’s never “barren” - I see much depth in those sand dunes. There is this intangible melancholic peace of being with the sand, the sunset - and at times with friends over a BBQ in the desert on a winter evening - priceless
For everything else there is the city of Dubai :)
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