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Early morning today - picked up our tour at 3:15 am and headed out for our hot air balloon excursion. Our guide picked us up atb the ship's terminal and drove us out to the dessert to the launch site. Here we were given coffee, some dates and a safety briefing before boarding our balloon. The balloon baskets were large, holding 24 people - two compartments of 12 and a space in the middle for the pilot. We travelled 17 km across the dessert before landing, with hardly a bump.
After landing we were transported to an area with vintage land rovers and we switched vehicles for the trip to our breakfast venue - also in the dessert. We had an amazing gourmet breakfast in the dessert. We each got to hold a falcon and we had a camel ride. Our guide did a bit of a photo shoot of us in the vintage land rover - more photos in the album.
All this and we were back to the ship by 9:20 am. We spent the rest of our day in Dubai at the Dubai Mall - walking around, admiring the art, the fountain display and having lunch.
After landing we were transported to an area with vintage land rovers and we switched vehicles for the trip to our breakfast venue - also in the dessert. We had an amazing gourmet breakfast in the dessert. We each got to hold a falcon and we had a camel ride. Our guide did a bit of a photo shoot of us in the vintage land rover - more photos in the album.
All this and we were back to the ship by 9:20 am. We spent the rest of our day in Dubai at the Dubai Mall - walking around, admiring the art, the fountain display and having lunch.
Beautiful pics, by the way!!