Wednesday 18 April 2012

ski dubai

this is a damn long overdue post... :P


late last year, a trainee from our sister property in penang came over for a month of cross exposure, and was based in my department. so being the head of the department, other than making sure she's well-taken care of in terms of living arrangements, daily needs etc, as well as getting the proper "exposure" on the job, i should also properly introduce her to the city, it being her first time here and all... what a good excuse reason to go out jalan-jalan and be all touristy, right? :P


anyway, i've been in sandland for more than a year, and still i've not been to the famous snow mountain right smack in the middle of the desert. so what better time to do it than now?


actually we didn't plan to go here. my trainee, shopaholic shelby, is... well, as the name suggested, a shopaholic.  so as ski dubai is located inside mall of the emirates, we decided to go in while we were shopping at the mall.


boots, jumper, gloves and socks are already costed in the entrance fee... and we get to keep the gloves and socks.


quite excited to be touching snow, albeit man-made (i don't think this was my first time touching snow, but all are man-made ones). don't be deceived by the happy smile. it's blardy cold in there! we were breathing frost out of our mouths...


snow! :D


there are a few rides and "snow games" in the snow park area, like this sled...


riding down the slope on twin tubes...


rolling down the slope in this giant ball...


actually i was afraid to try this, coz i thot i'd be really ROLLING down the hill. i dun wanna puke all over the snow and embarrass myself! but then i found out we won't be really "rolling" inside the ball. as you can see in the picture, i'm halfway down the hill and still in the sitting position. the inside of the ball is slippery and so we're actually just sliding along inside while the ball is rolling...


but after rolling down, we need to trudge back up the hill, which is mighty hard work!


our entrance ticket included a ride on the ski lift up the snow slope...


we're not allowed to disembark when we arrived at the top, coz we're not skiers. we could only remain on the ski lift and ride down the slope again. the top is quite far and high up!


our pass was for whole day, but we lasted for only 1 hour coz we were freezing! even our toes have started to numb from the cold... here's one last camwhoring before we exit.

2 comments:

Biow said...

big leh.. 1000x better than our snow city.. which is just like a big fridge.. *roll eyes*

stargal said...

hahaha... the arabs are known for going overboard in doing things.