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Two new vids from the Arab Emirates.

Sand-Yeti - 30-3-2008 at 09:56 AM

1)
When buggying in the desert I meet the occasional person and have become friendly with them over the years.
Here is a vid. I made of a bedu - 'Ali' coming to say hallo.
The female voice you hear in the vid is my Mrs.

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zxgOspdLU&feature=user

2)
Second vid. is bouncing through the dunes with my cam pointing forward & to the side.
About the middle of the vid, I OBE due to being ripped out of my seat because of an unusually severe gust.

Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaWyvLfOh8

KiteProject - 30-3-2008 at 10:29 AM

Hi Sand-Yeti,

1. Great handle! I remember seeing your posts on Flexi forum about Blade IVs.

2. I also checked out other vids you have on YouTube. Great videos.

KiteProject - 30-3-2008 at 10:36 AM

Desert looks like a perfect place for buggying, there is no end in sight and certainly no people and their annoying dogs. How hot does it get there?

USA_Eli_A - 30-3-2008 at 10:45 AM

dude, wtf, I wanna go. Looks like the sahara.....went accross something like that in Africa but that spot look RAD.......ahhhh I'm going crazy..i wanna wanna go! ah...

what is the closet airport......to those dunes?

popeyethewelder - 30-3-2008 at 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by USA_Eli_A
dude, wtf, I wanna go.


check these pages out Eli

http://pic7.piczo.com/Popeyethewelder/?g=37125053&cr=7

KiteProject - 30-3-2008 at 11:59 AM

Check this out:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNkVU7l5iY&feature=relate...

Great music too!

Sand-Yeti - 30-3-2008 at 01:17 PM

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Originally posted by KiteProject
Desert looks like a perfect place for buggying, there is no end in sight and certainly no people and their annoying dogs. How hot does it get there?


Winter is very nice here around mid 20C's in the day time.

Summer gets a bit warm, sometimes well over 50 C (130 F).
I buggy all year round.
I sweat under all the armour in summer and have to drink lots of water & take powders to put the salts back in my body. I have the hang of surviving the heat now but earlier I used to suffer with bad cramps and heat exhaustion.

Sand-Yeti - 30-3-2008 at 01:26 PM

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Originally posted by USA_Eli_A
dude, wtf, I wanna go. Looks like the sahara.....went accross something like that in Africa but that spot look RAD.......ahhhh I'm going crazy..i wanna wanna go! ah...

what is the closet airport......to those dunes?


Dubai International airport.
You just need a passport & US citizens don't need a visa.
You could be in those dunes in about an hour's drive from the airport.

I will keep an eye out for you. Unfortunately, we haven't any Americans in our little group yet.

Our desert (The Empty Quarter) is the largest sand desert in the World. Sadly, most of it is in Saudi Arabia (next door) The Sahara is much larger but only sandy in places.

USA_Eli_A - 30-3-2008 at 01:43 PM

wow...........Yep, mauritania's beach was perfect. then you can head off into the sahara dunes, evidently there are old land mines left behind, because of a war between senagal and mauritania, but, It was epic kiting! we found on exposed mine that had been disassembled....and huge dunes!!!

Sand-Yeti - 31-3-2008 at 01:56 AM

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Originally posted by USA_Eli_A
wow...........Yep, mauritania's beach was perfect. then you can head off into the sahara dunes, evidently there are old land mines left behind, because of a war between senagal and mauritania, but, It was epic kiting! we found on exposed mine that had been disassembled....and huge dunes!!!


The good news here is that we don't have any land mines or similar nasty man made stuff.
I have seen first hand the horror of landmines in Mozambique.
I was never comfortable about walking behind a bush to take a leak there in case a landmine took something else off as well as a leg while I was relieving myself.

We have dunes in the Empty Quarter below Liwa risng up about 600 feet from the desert floor. I have driven through the dunes there, which is very challenging in itself but never buggied there.
I'd love to buggy there but finding somebody to support me in that area is nigh on impossible.