We drove to Madinat Zayed in the desert to an annual camel beauty pagent and market. It was the craziest thing I've seen here in the UAE.
There were reportedly, 43,000 camels, and Im guessing 25,000 white Nissan Patrols, 20 thousand men, three other expat women and Laura and I.
There was a traditional heritage village set up staffed by Emirati women. As I said in an early post it is very unusual to have to the chance to interact with Emirati women so it was all very interesting. They were wonderfully hospitable with almost every single stall inviting us in for coffee. Bert was at one stage sitting in the sand drinking coffee with four of his new best buddies. It was a great day and we will go again next year, only next time we will be armed with the video camera as well
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