When I first arrived in the UAE, I was told horror stories about the time before the UAE fenced all the major motorways. I was told that it was common to find a camel crossing the motorway at 0.2 km/h, while Citizens were proceeding along the same motorway at 200 km/h. Ex-pats caught between the camels and the Citizens were like job applicants who, during a coffee break at the interview, took a large mouthful of boiling coffee: no matter what they did next, it was certain to be wrong.
Today, those fences are in disrepair in a certain Northern Emirate, so, once again, camels and goats may be seen, leisurely crossing the major motorways.
Consequently, part of the adventure of inter-emirates travel is the joy of watching my poor driver, desperately swerving to avoid the dire consequences of hitting either a camel or a goat.
wont the animals feet burn on the asphalt?
ReplyDeleteHarsha: Goats and camels must have feet well prepared for heat. They seem to be in no great hurry to get off the pavement.
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