Seating for 5!

We felt our trip wouldn't be complete without a trip to the dessert. We took a dune bashing ride where we hopped in an SUV and our driver took us through the dunes...it was a wild ride. Then, we sat on a camel, sand boarded, got henna tatoos, watched the belly dancers and topped off the night with an act from "America's Got Talent..." a fire breathing dancer...yep - the guy drank lighter fluid right in front of us and breathed on a torch and flames shot out just like a dragon! And that's a wrap in the Arabian dessert!!!

We dipped into the clear blue Persian Gulf today - now we are waiting for our dessert safari where we will ride a camel in the dessert! 

we landed in the United Arab Emirates this morning... and we are checked into the grand excelsior hotel Dubai. We are just settling in... so I’ll post more later.

Our African adventures ended with a quick trip through Pilanes National Park where we completed the big 5 by seeing a leopard in the wild! We also saw hippos, rhinos, elephants, giraffes, kudu, wart hogs and zebra... to think we almost skipped this place! Now we are at the airport awaiting our next flight.

we just finished our last spectacular game drive... following a lions roar into the wild where we found a male and female resting for the day in the brush. We are now leaving motswiri and heading to another lodge for the night about 2.5 hours away before we head to the airport and hop on a plane to the United Arab Emirates.

From sunrise to sunset, around every turn there's something to see. We have just two game drives left to soak it all in.