My 19+ hour journey was relatively uneventful. Time went by surprisingly quickly.
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I arrived in Abu Dhabi around 8:30 pm Wednesday February 4th. Jo and Dave collected me from the airport.
Stayed up with Dave till about 11:30pm...... And then crashed!!
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Jodie woke me up when she got home from work (Thursday @3:30pm). They took me out for Lebanese food; really good Lebanese food!!
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Friday and Saturday are the UAE's weekend. We got up early Friday morning and went to the camel races.
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I was a little uncomfortable at first as I wasn't sure how I/ we would be received.
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It didn't take long to relax. The Emirate men were very welcoming.
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They even offered us coffee and ginger tea..... The ginger tea is wonderful!!!!!
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These camels run around an 8km track. I didn't know that camels ran, and I never expected them to run that far.
The camels are corralled into a chute. The race begins once the gate lifts up.
Then it's a free for all. The gaggle of camels come charging out.... They don't all go the right way (some get turned around and come back).
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One of the highlights was getting to be a passenger in the video taping vehicle (not sure what to call it).
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Camels are pretty graceful. The poor things do froth at the mouth something fierce!
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This camel above was cooling off after his race.
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The camels have electronic jockeys (pictured above). As I understand it, they used to have very young children doing the job.
-Camels are shy when you first meet them.
-Camels have horrible teeth.
-Camels can run fast.
-Camels have big feet.
-Camels have bristly fur/ hair (not sure if it's the former or latter).
Gotta run.
5 comments:
Camels spit too. I only know this because of an up-close and personal experience I had as a child. Ughh!
I'm very glad I didn't get to experience that Char!!!
Wow cool experience!
This is awesome! So jealous!
I once rode a camel in Morocco. He (she) didn't run though.
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