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So… it’s winter and the ambient temperature of Dubai is 25C and we’re in the desert… Time for Skiing!
No, not sand skiing, that’s tomorrow. Ski Dubai is located on top of the Mall of Emirates and is a huge 22,500-square metre indoor ski zone. I haven’t had much experience with snow, but apparantly this place has excellent snow.

Being noobs we did the ‘discovery’ course which teaches the basics of skiing. I think I did pretty well and learnt a lot on how to ‘recover’ from falling over in the snow with ski’s on… mainly because my brother decided it was a great idea to push me over much to the amusement for the rest of the training group.

Just as well Dubai has some spare oil, as Ski Dubai uses 3,500 barrels of oil every day by powering generators to maintain the low temperature of -1…-2 degrees Celsius consistently.