Al Ain Zoo - A Road Trip - Part 1

This was the first road trip to Al Ain, I had heard about it so much, and had not been there since my 3 year tenure in UAE. Al Ain which is not an emirate is known thus for it's lush green landscape,and hence the name "Garden city". It's a beautiful place, I saw plants all along the roads up to Al Ain while travelling from Dubai.
Once there..it was exotic, mostly villas ( the regular brown ones), with lush greenery..WOW..it was just peaceful and nice.For once I felt it was something similar to places I had seen on-road to Bangalore.
The features that awaken you are:-

• The neat and wide roads( which of course is abundant in UAE).
• The plants along the high way.
• The lights on trees...almost every alternate ones....nights are awesome with these illuminated trees around.
• The cool weather ( right now it's awesome)
• The rustic environment with serene nature

We started by 11 and reached there by noon. And for the first time I wore shorts outside(I've never worn shorts outside).........and DANG...what do you know...as I entered the Zoo premises, a Zoo security requested if I could cover up-til my knees because it's against the norms to wear shorts in Al Ain Zoo. And though I was pissed off,because my first attempt at shorts ,and for it to become a bummer, was putting off my "shorts" trial to a zilch, when the security kept apologizing a lot for asking me to do so.....coz one thing I have noticed after coming to UAE is that Filipino and shorts are inseparable. Any age , any temperature, they are out in shorts.and I understood, why she was being very apologetic, she was so sweet and sorry I didn't mind it(it seemed courteous). I was like awwww....I understand..now where do I go and get something to cover myself up. And she guided us to a gift shop that had some scarfs, I got one black scarf and wrapped it around...and tadaaaaa....I was all ready to go zoo walking.

And my hubby ,was like " Didn't I say so , when we started" and I was like "jajajajaja" (*Grunt* smartpants), and let's just get going with my scarf skirt,shall we !!!!

And so we embarked on our zoo trip...

And rest I will take you through with pictures, we had exhausted our camera memory with pics, so I have put the trip picture posts in parts, so that I can show you as many as I can.

(To be continued.............)