17 Apr 2025
There are lots of companies doing these sort of trips so if it would be better with anyone else I don't know because when we done the " buggy in the desert" and "quad biking in the desert" you just follow a guide for such a short time it's not worth it. The buggy was around 15 minutes basically driving in a circle and the quad biking was even less, 12 minutes! Another group with us went out separately and drove for 30 minutes!! A couple with us complained and the gave us another run, this time we got 8 minutes literally driving in an oval very slowly, can't have been over 20kmh at any point! There were so many people driving around the area, I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said there probably over 200 quad bikes and buggies, it was chaos! Lunch was ok but if you decide to do this trip, take some food, there isn't much served and you can't go for more!!
We were tired and bored after this but the bedouin show wasn't for another 2 hours. Waiting around being hounded to buy cigarettes or over priced refreshments we got fed up of waiting and told our guide we want our taxi (that we paid $10 per person extra!!) still didn't get old taxi until an hour later! The guide come asking for a tip!!
The taxi is a whole other story! He got lost twice taking us there despite using GPS!!!! When he eventually came he managed to get us back to Elgouna and when we left the over priced taxi in the hotel he called me back, "can I have a tip?" ???? Over all we can say we've done it, driven in the desert, ridden a camel and eaten what they called authentic bedouin food ???? but I don't think we would go back in a hurry!