An early start today as we were off to the desert. A quick breakfast and then we headed outside to meet our transfer for the excursion that we’d booked through the taxi driver. It was half the price of booking elsewhere so there was always the chance that it wasn’t going to happen.
Taxi man was waiting for but without his taxi, after a few minutes a Vauxhall Corsa pulled up and we were ushered in, but as we were getting in a minibus arrived and taxi man told us to get in that instead. That took us to another minibus where we met with some others and got on our way. Everyone else had vouchers, we had a WhatsApp message.
After 40mins, we arrived at our destination, quad bike and buggy adventures in the desert. We’d ‘booked’ a buggy, and when the guys there asked for my voucher I just said No and they were happy with that.
The signs there said that a driving license was required but we were never asked, no waivers either but somehow we all survived.
We were given some goggles and then a thorough briefing which basically involved someone pointing to the two peddles.
The adventure began, the quads were out first and we followed in the buggies, there were about eight quads and three buggies.
It didn’t take long for us in the buggies to figure out that if we dropped back, we were out of sight of the organisers and could drive more ‘spirited’. Confidence grew and soon we were on full opposite lock, powering through the bend and over the crests. Just then we came to a stop and one of the guys came over to have a word “no more cornering like that”. I’d been told.
That just meant I had to be doubly sure he was out of sight!
We stopped for a break after an hour and Harrison tried his best to find a snake despite everyone yelling at him not to go near the sparse foliage. One of the organisers then took him out on a quad which he loved.
After the safari we were taken back to their base camp for tea and offered the opportunity to give them tips before being loaded back into the minibus and heading back to the hotel.
We chilled for a bit and then went to one of the hotel pools to go on the water slides. Harrison made a friend who was from Northfield so I made sure to keep an eye on my phone.
After dinner we played Boules and unsurprisingly Harrison won again.
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