00:00Hello everyone, it's 6.42am and rather chilly.
00:20Where are we?
00:21We're here at the 40th Gulf News Fun Drive.
00:24It's the Tilal Swehan Experience and behind me are the early arrivals.
00:30People have started arriving into the campsite in order to register their names and that
00:36of their families.
00:38So we're here to kickstart this massive major event which is always such a thrilling adventure
00:46for a lot of people.
00:47It's exhilarating just to see everyone here.
00:52After two years, we've all been cooped up and just to actually breathe the lovely fresh
01:00air and see all these crowds, my god, it's a wonderful feeling.
01:06We are one of the proud sponsors for this year's Gulf News Fun Drive.
01:10It's a great moment for us to be associated again this year.
01:14What better opportunity to associate with our customers than the Fun Drive, which is
01:19the most sought-after outdoor event which everyone looks forward to.
01:24People have travelled, some of them I know from outside Dubai, just to be a part of this
01:28event again this year.
01:30It's a great opportunity to be out and about after a few years of being locked down so
01:34everyone is looking forward to it.
01:47We are proud to join all these many people here in this event.
01:56This truck is a military truck.
01:58We bought it surplus, only we paid $20,000 and we have this body from the ram, we put
02:07it over it.
02:10We used the chassis of this truck in another project.
02:15So we used this body over the military truck.
02:18I'm happy, alhamdulillah, after COVID, you know, everything open now.
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04:22So we are back to the campsite after seven hours of amazing dune bashing.
04:28It was spectacular.
04:30The whole journey from morning till early afternoon was just so thrilling and adventurous.
04:38And now we are back here at the campsite where a number of games have been lined up
04:43for the participants.
04:46We are also going to have a cake cutting later in the evening.
04:52Dinner will be laid out for all the participants.
04:55And well, it's a second round of celebrations for everyone here.
05:25We are here on the 40th fun drive that happens around the UAE over in Al Ain.
05:52And I can assure you that this event is as fun as they come.
05:55We've got a lot of great people.
05:57We've got a lot of great ventures that actually happen here.
06:00Pretty damn good music and everywhere in between.
06:03I want to tell you to get yourself here.
06:05If you didn't this year, make sure that you do the next year.
06:07Hi, we're the Safiyas and we've been coming here for the past 15 years and I've been doing
06:12this since I was two.
06:13And it's a very fun trip and we've missed it so much.
06:16It was a really fun drive.
06:17The marshals and all were very good.
06:19They supported us throughout.
06:21I would like to thank Gulf News and the whole organizing committee for getting us over here.
06:25I have come with my family, my two sons and my wife.
06:29And we enjoyed.
06:30The drive was great.
06:32The marshal was cooperating.
06:34Everywhere we found marshals.
06:36So it was a comfortable drive.
06:38She's the one who told me about this fun drive.
06:41And by luck, I just go to their webpage on the same day when the registration was open.
06:49And then I registered myself.
06:51And it is really an amazing experience.
06:54I was telling to my wife a few minutes before that it is like a lifetime experience here.
07:01The atmosphere here is really electric.
07:04The carnival, what you see, especially after two years of Corona and the pandemic.
07:10This is something very, very exciting, what we see happening all around.
07:15I want to say that I had so much fun through the whole experience.
07:18It was something that you have to experience.
07:21If you live in Dubai, if you live in UAE or if you're going to travel here.
07:25I really recommend you guys to come here and have fun.
07:27This was my first time at Fun Drive Gulf News.
07:31Even though we couldn't complete the circuit fully.
07:34But this was an extremely good learning experience.
07:38As I got to drive and do the whole dune bashing thing.
07:42It was risky, it was scary.
07:45But I would definitely say it was one of a lifetime experience.
07:48And definitely a lot of fun.
07:50Another edition of the Gulf News Fun Drive has come to an end.
07:53All in all, it's been a great thrilling experience.
07:56We spoke to the participants who unanimously said they have been waiting for this event to happen.
08:01Remember, the Gulf News Fun Drive is happening after a two-year gap.
08:04And participants said they have been waiting for it.
08:08Because they wanted to have a fun-filled experience with their family and friends.
08:12And that's what they did yesterday.
08:14It's a wrap for us.
08:16And everybody here at Dalal Swehan.
08:19This is Anjana Kumar for Gulf News.
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