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Off The Beaten Path: Road to Hatta
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You can easily hire cars in Dubai, but avoid the peak hour traffic. A Friday, our weekend, is a good day to drive. Once you're out of the city it's easy - good roads, good signage in English as well as Arabic and not too many roads to choose from. One good, easy choice is to drive to Hatta. Simply follow the signs.
You go past the end of Dubai Creek, with its wetlands bird sanctuary with flocks of flamingoes, and into typical desert, then into an area of beautiful golden dunes, where you'll find several companies offering motor bike and quad bike dune-bashing. You'll see plenty of camels along the way. Further on into the mountainous region and there's a whole string of pottery and carpet shops - very cheap pottery and silk Persian carpets for around US$100. Past an area with hilltop villas more like Spain than Dubai and into the village of Hatta, which is only a few hundred metres from the Oman border.
The Hatta Fort Hotel is a good place to stop for lunch, and a leisurely drive back to Dubai in time for dinner. Each way will be about one and a half hours.
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Website: http://www.jebelali-international.com/hatta_home.asp
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