Where's my car? Where's my keys? Where's my clothes?

Couples of days after I’ll be leaving Dubai my friend Daniela goes back home to. She has organized a goodbye party at the desert to celebrate it, together with her birthday.

It was overnight party and bearing that in mind and being aware of how the temperature can decrease in the night at the desert I’ve realized, that I did not take enough warm clothes from Poland. How smart of me! But that was a good excuse for last shopping in Dubai. And as it was shopping for sport/casual clothes it was even fun. I’ve found some useful stuff.

In the afternoon Daniela together with Diti picked me from the hotel (they were about an hour late, but that was actually ok for me), we went to the meeting place where everyone (about 20 people) was already waiting only for us.

After quick shopping (just in case if there is not enough meat) we finally drove towards Hatta, where the party spot is. It took us of course some time to find it, as everyone had their own idea. Try to coordinate 10 cars…

In the end, we’ve made it. And even people arriving later were able to find us. No clue how. We’ve set up all gear. Most of it was brought by Daniela’s local friend with big pimp-my-ride car. He had everything there starting from power generators, through tents and finishing with cushions. Sweet.

We had great fun there, even though I was not allowed to drink anything I had so much fun. Grilling, chatting, dancing and taking pictures was basically our occupation during the whole time. Except when we were driving a quad and flipping over on the steep dune. Too many people on one machine.

I was supposed to stay for a night in a tent, but actually I got a chance to go back home the same night which I took. I did not want to spend half of Saturday on the desert waiting for everyone to get up and get sober enough to drive. I wanted to use the day as it was supposed to be my last day off in UAE.

Let's the party begin.
Somewhere there among all those bags, there is a lot of booze. Even in UAE there are the ways to drink not only in a bar.

Fire, BBQ, sitting mats, chairs. This is called good organization.

Friends

Dubai Girls

Daniela got a cool poster with Dubai landmarks. That poster was enhanced with small pics of her and her friends sticked in the cool Dubai spots.

Dubai Girls

Let's go dancing

Russia, Uruguay, UAE, Germany - so international

This is that vehicle that we had an accident on

Get yourself together

That was my injury

Black and Yellow

Dubai is a comlex of buildings (it's not even a city) where:

• alcohol is forbiden, but pint of beer costs about 10 euro
• alcohol can be only bought in hotel bars
• it is forbidden even to kiss even in such liberal place like dance floor
• I'm being asked about my id when I want to enter the club
• clubs are full during the weekends, but the only people there are expats
• the only friends that I've made so far are girls
• there are no street names and taxi drivers very often don't know the way so it's you who has to show it
• there is minimum speed limit on the road in the city - 60 km
• my colleagues from India speak their mother language with taxi drivers
• 75% of population is male
• 60% population is from India
• fewer than 10% of population are Emiratis
• kids of all nationalities play together on the playgrounds watched by Philippines baby sitters
• women hidden behind abaya (full-length black robe) and shayla (black veil) or even niqab or burqa walk in shopping malls with lingerie bags
• there is additional fashion category: Arabic Ladies Fashion
• in the most expencive stores (RL, Armani, Gucci, Hermes etc.) there is noone except Emiratis
• protagonists of commercials of electronics or office spaces are Bedouins in gutra (head cloth) and dishdasha (man's shirt-dress) knows also as thawb 
• everything is practically in the middle of the desert
• in the middle of the city or living estate you can find see shells
• with the highest building in the world (Burj Khalifa, 828m)
• where every district looks more impressive than Warsaw's city center
• there are no natural green spots, every piece of lawn, each tree or bush must be watered
• even during the winter it is incredibly hot and you cannot live without AC
• there are separate carriages in tube for woman, so that you can easily avoid being pushed or squeezed by man
• my curiosity drove me that far that I've asked if even though Arabic women cannot be seen by anyone not belonging to the family without burka or shayla what happens if they need to be examined by the gynecologist. And what's more what happens when he's a man, as there are male gynecologists here too. The answer is, that it is allowed and accepted.