The UAE turns 40 #1: Car Party on 30th..

Walking down 30th to the corniche..







Flatscreen on top of your SUV anyone?

















The whole walk down was one big crazystring party - then we saw the tiger..

Random Street Shots #2..

Central AD, street stylee..

The tin can pyramid in the centre of the desert..

About an hours drive outside of AD city lies the Emirates National Auto Museum. It kind of snuck up on us in the form of a big old dusty jet plane and a corrugated iron pyramid, stuck out in the middle of nowhere and looking quite odd. Needless to say that this bizarre set of seemingly random structures, stuck halfway between the Grand Mosque and Liwa, inspired us to stop and have a look around!



The first thing we unavoidably noticed as we got closer was the massively over-sized four wheel drive restaurant poking out over the fence.









Upon entering the car park we were greeted by the massive tin shed-pyramid and very possibly the strangest looking caravan we'd ever seen.









Unfortunately the museum was closed for renovations, but I managed to slip around the corner and take a walk around the heritage village thingy.

Would you tap this?

Random tap action, central AD, time irrelevant..

(Not the) Capitol Records building..

Kinda reminds me of it though..

Jebel Hafeet - AD city stylee..

The Corniche and its various parks and beaches is easily my favorite thing about Abu Dhabi, it's like an island of serentity on the edge of a dustbowl of hell. A little harsh, maybe.. In any case there are many things that you encounter along the sprawl that are designed to get your mind-motor running, and I guess one of them is the Jebel Hafeet walk. To be honest, I would have had no clue that this odd little concrete maze of fake rock was a mini-me to the landmark that is JH had I not taken the drive in the month or so prior to happening upon it, but it doesn't really matter because it's just as purposeless and bizarre anyway..

Jebel HaFeeT..

It was time to take a trip outta town. Drove up to check out Al Ain with my mate, the GaNgster of GeEz, and while we were there we pointed our little Mondeo rental towards the mountainous lump of rockiness that is Jebel Hafeet. A nice little drive on the way up, stopped here and there to take a few snaps, but unfortunately that was about all there was to it. By the time we'd had a little look around at the top we were ready to return, to the relative comforts (and bar) of the Intercontinental Hotel..