Made it to Dubai, it took 20 hours of being locked up next to an old guy who smelled like cabbage inside a flying metal tube.
Found a garden in DXB with the fam
Reasons why three hour layovers suck
- You can't really leave the airport to go explore the city
- You're frantically searching for your gate so you don't miss your flight, and are stranded in a foreign country.
- You're groggy, smelly, tired, haven't had a good meal and you can't bathe yourself in an airport sink and you can justify spending $5 million at the airport McDonalds or Starbucks to buy food and drinks.
Reasns why three hour layovers at DXB suck
- The airport is literally in the middle of the dessert. You can't leave because, well first off you only have three hours and secondly people get lost and die in the dessert.
- Emirates is a great airline but the only one that really operates at DXB, and the whole airport is just empty all the time. It's a ghost town in there.
- DXB was the most opulent airport I've ever been too. Everything is shiny and spotless, there are massive indoor waterfalls and gardens, but there is honestly no one in this whole airport.
- It's scary as all heck because all the airport employees are always smiling and trying to sell me Gucci handbags and gold plated cellphones.
Some final thoughts
Dubai is probably a great country will cool people, but I didn't see that. All I saw was their gold plated and tinsel covered airport that was devoid of any sort of human activity. As my connecting flight to Bangalore neared Indian people started to materialize out of thin air, I took a picture because I couldn't believe it! Seeing people again reminded me that maybe I wasn't going crazy over the past three hours walking around, and that I still had another 4 hour flight to look forward too.
Who knew there would be Indian people in an airport that took people to India!