This was a long-awaited event for the Discovered Trax team. We had heard about this event last December shortly after Raider arrived on the team. At that point we had just missed the 2015 event,...
Human & K9 Challenge
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Other Activities
DOAS 2016
For the first time in the iconic Dubai Marina, the Dubai Outdoor and Adventure show highlighted the growing participation of people from all walks of life in all things outdoor related. Organised by...
Tried & Tested: Sandboarding with a locally made board
Recently I had the opportunity to go and try out sandboarding with Simon Mark Hunt, the impressively bearded guy behind a cool new locally based brand called ABOVE sandboards, who lovingly handcraft...
Outdoor Education: Travelling…with children?
I travel quite frequently for work, usually with a large group of students to various locations around the world. Sometimes people at different airports ask me things like 'how do you cope?' or 'is...
Adventure Thailand
As one of only six countries in the world to have never been colonised, the country with the longest running monarchy and a name that translates literally to ‘the land of the free’, Thailand is one...
Conquering the Great Wall Marathon
When I was in The Maldives celebrating my 34th birthday, I got chatting to someone from China who suggested I take part in the Great Wall Marathon. Wait…what?!! The Great Wall whaaaaaaaaaaaat?! I...
People: Zeeshan Mirza
Age: 30 Nationality: Pakistani Occupation: IT Manager “Nothing brings me more joy than hurling down towards the earth at a speed of 250kph.When I finally land, I am more alive than any other moment...
Wild Dolphins, those unnoticed inhabitants of UAE waters
When I first moved to Dubai, I was looking forward to exploring the desert and its exotic creatures. But when I realised that there was a lack of information about dolphins and whales in the Gulf, I...
Outdoor Education
With Thursday 5th May being a school holiday for Al Isra W'al Miraj, the long weekend saw a group of young adventurers from Deira International School tackle a few more of the cool things to do...
Natural History
“Will They Not Consider How Camels Were Created?” [Al-Qur’an 88:17-21] Often referred to as the “Ship of the Desert” The Arabian Dromedary Camel or Camelus Dromedarius to give it its binomial Latin...
Wind and Wave Forecast
