Liwa Camping

This weekend we did a short one night camping excursion out to Liwa, UAE. It is down at the very border of UAE and it is desert for miles and miles. The dunes are huge and we packed up the Jeep and headed out for a night under the stars.

The Liwa dunes are a camper oasis as well as the fun driving and dune bashing. We saw plenty of dune buggies zipping around. What is crazy about the dunes is that they are huge but are surrounding salt flats. You can see from the satellite photo below what I mean. 

If you go directly south from point A about an inch, you'll see a large round salt flat. We camped about on this one. The white border line you see is the Saudi Arabian border.

The scenery was amazing, we saw a bunch of wild camels and met a few bedouin herders. It was nice to just camp and get out of the city and enjoy the beautiful weather. I couldn't get over how huge the dunes were, some of them were over 500 feet tall. Enjoy some of the pics.

Beautiful red sand dunes, going as far as you can see. 

Sunset in Liwa Dunes

Peter looks so small.

Climbing  up to the top of our dune. You can see the giant round salt flat below (where one of our cars was parked).

Shalene and the Liwa dunes

Starting to see the stars

Katie and Shalene getting a ride from a friendly bedouin camel herder. 

Shalene and the dune 

Peter at sunset