Vlog-style YouTube video by Nate Buchanan documenting an early-morning hot air balloon ride over the Dubai desert with Kara Buchanan. The transcript captures sunrise views, a falcon demonstration, close passes over dunes and camels, and a notably rough landing. After breakfast at the desert camp they visit Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa, where the usual fountain and light shows are cancelled due to a royal family death.
It's early. It's gonna be totally worth it.
I almost am.
It's still really dark outside and we just got to the desert.
We've taken flights. We're in the air. We're in a hot air balloon. Oh, my gosh.
This is incredible.
The sun's about to come up.
I can't believe this. Oh, God.
The center goes gone forever.
And they brought a falcon.
There's falcon. All the blue is the best.
I think the landing might be a little rough.
All the way back. Okay. In the lady position.
Okay.
Facing this way. This way. The other way.
This way.
Just stay there. Just lean back there.
Lean back.
You think riding in a bullet would be scary?
A little bit.
The basket is going to tip over. The basket will tip on its side. There's going to be a few bumps here.
Seems to know it is.
Okay, holding on tight.
Here we go.
Okay, holding on.
Here we go. The anticipation. Oh, that wasn't bad.
That wasn't bad at all.
Oh.
There we go.
Oh, you almost get pooped on you.
The bird almost pooped on me. Almost.
That was a lot more exciting than.
I thought it was gonna be.
That was nuts. I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting when we went up in a hot air balloon. I kind of thought we would just like go up and float around and come back down. But like he was driving it. We went far, all the way over the conservation area. We were down like close to the dunes and then we'd go up really high.
We were turning around, getting to see the camels and the dunes and the sunrise from the air was just incredible.
And nobody's allowed to even walk on that section of the desert. So all you could see was just suki, suki, silky smooth sand dunes and animal tracks. It was just magical. And the landing was crazy.
Now I have about a 40 minute drive back to the camp that we were at last night for breakfast.
Feels good to be back. I hope they have more coffee. I need them.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, there's some type of.
Oh, my gosh.
Breakfast looks so amazing. There's a poached egg in this little bowl. Some eggs Benedict with salmon and my favorite, halloumi cheese. The sun's warming everything up. This is lovely.
Hey, see you guys.
See you. So nice to meet you.
It was so nice to meet you.
See you.
We'll see you guys.
It's not even lunchtime yet and it's already been such a fun day. But now we're going to take some time to rest because we got it before the sun this morning and we have really fun plans tonight. We thought the ending to today's video would be just as cool as the beginning but that's not going to be the case.
So we've come down to the Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa which for those of you who don't know is the tallest building in the world. And every night there's supposed to be an awesome fountain show and a light show on the Burj but unfortunately that's not happening because one of the members of the royal family has died and so they've shut it all down for three days in the morning which is really sad.
But I am glad that we came and saw it cuz it is really.
Cool and it gives us a reason to come back. We missed going to the tallest building in the world. We missed the fountain show. So be back. Goodbye. We'll be back.
I'm in like a squat position.
I know my legs are burning.
