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Today we moved locations. From our hotel in Dubai we travelled 3.5 hours by car south past Abu Dhabi and inland to a desert resort called QSAR AL SARAB. Before departing Nina went for one of her early morning walks and from this contributed a single photo to todays collection. The drive itself certainly underscored the UAE's investment in infrastructure, the roads are first class and high speed (140km/h speed limit), massive long distance electrical wires, and a number of power stations and water desalinations plants to be seen.

By the time we got to the resort we were travelling through an area of very large sand dunes, finally to discover that the resort is a large complex nestled between these same dunes.

The resort is in an area called the Empty Quarter which is a desert covering 650,000 square kms and includes parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE and Yemen.

Checkin was a bit of a drawn out affair and eventually got so drawn out that we complained about the delay and as a result got upgraded to a suite. Maybe we should take that as a hint to complain more often.

The photos below finish with a few shots of the resort.

This is a nice place but not cheap. We had dinner in our room with a US$100 bottle of wine and a US$75 plate of nibbles.