The Desert

The desert is eternal, or so it would seem, but the dunes are most vulnerable to man. In that stretch of desert in the far reaches of Dubai a road is being cut through desert of unsurpassing beauty, opening a previously untouched part of Dubai's last scenic desert to visitors. Although the road is only two or three months old, there are many using that stretch of desert, long caravans of commercially operated SUVs and the occasional groups of motorcycles or four-wheelers. By dusk, however, they clear out, and a quiet group can cook kebabs and burgers and sit in silence and quiet talk around a fire fueled by charcoal briquettes and scrap lumber. On a moonless night, the sky is still bright around the edges from the spilling of light from nearby towns, but above the stars stand clear and bright against the blackness of the sky...