Early afternoon I got picked up by a minibus with a number of other people just off Burjerman station, the minivan that had seat belts, but they were all tied up with zip ties so you couldn’t use them… Sensible.

We then went about an hour or so into the desert to (I don’t quite know how long, I fell asleep). Where we got out into some 4x4s and were taken jumping and sliding and all sorts over some dunes (which was amazingly fun!!) to our base for the evening.

I then tried my hand at sandboarding, which was fun but exhausting climbing back up the dune after each run, and had a slightly longer trip on a camel. We had a big buffet dinner and watched an assortment of dancing: dancing with swords and jangly things, a chap dancing by spinning around constantly at some great pace for many minutes (how he didn’t throw up was beyond me, but he was really entertaining), then some fire eating, fire pomes, fire whips, fire staff, lots of fire things, then two chaps dressed as a horse. It was a lot of fun.