It was during the UAE National Day December 1, 2022 when we camped at Suhaila Lake, Hatta, UAE. It’s Becca’s 2nd time to experience overnight camping as well, and guess, she loved it!
It was a 2-hour drive from where we’re residing in Dubai and was indeed a long drive. Thank goodness our 6 months old daughter have been very behave as she just slept through the journey.
The views of the mountains are very comforting especially that we are living in a place where building and cars populate the city. We really love to go out of our comfort zone and indulge with nature.
We were so happy that our little one appreciates the beauty of nature. We could see how she was amazed by the cool winds and greeneries.
We arrived and found our camping spot around 4 in the afternoon. The weather was really good that you would just want to sit down, eat something and enjoy the view. We camped just beside the lake same as the other campers who spent the night together with their families and friends.
By the way, this was an artificial or man-made lake same like the one in Expo 2020 lake in Qudra. Though in this place, noise was lesser, crowd was not that much and there were no mosquitoes. So I can say, that it’s a good camping spot if you’re planning to go with babies, toddlers and older kids.
Around 6 pm, everyone enjoyed the sunset, some continued grilling their barbecues, few children enjoyed playing in the lake while some enjoyed taking pictures with the great lake view just like this cute daddy and his baby.
I just keep on felling in love with this pic, look how cute they were! 🙂
This was our view in the morning. The cold breeze waved at us when we get out of our tents. Some people have left already, guessing most of them didn’t spent the whole night and went home at dawn.
In Suhaila Lake, cleanliness is substantial. People took care of their own garbage and willfully put them in the proper trash cans. Although same as other places, small pieces of plastics and other utensils could be found every where which probably were blown away by the wind. Nevertheless, cleaning attendants came to clean the small leftovers and properly sorted out the small pebbles that were washed or thrown away by the kids when playing by the lake.
Just keep in mind that there were no washrooms in the area so you have to consider this before choosing this place as a camping spot. You may bring your own portable toilet tent instead, just like what we always have.
Around 8 in the morning, we arranged our camping gears, leftover foods and other utensils and put them back to our cars as we headed to Hatta Dam.
On our way, there was this place you can see the word ‘HATTA’ just like the ‘Hollywood’ sign in the U.S. So we did a stop over and took some pictures.
It was a perfect view… look how cute they were! 🙂
Baby Becca, when you’ve grown up and see this pic, just know that you’ve been to Hatta a.k.a Hollywood! Haha! 😀
Becca, now looks sad, but she wasn’t! She was just sleepy, so cute little baby. 🙂
After this pic, we headed straight to Hatta Dam.
Actually, it’s the second time for me and my husband to go to Hatta Dam so we decided not to go up there as it was so high and we needed to climb up to a very long flight of stairs. Any way, it could also be difficult for us bringing our baby up there. So as we wait for our friends, we just waited for them at the parking zone where food shops were installed.
We got some pics at the Hatta Dam too from our previous visit, which I would definitely be sharing on my later posts! Hope you could catch up with us!
Have been to Suhaila Lake? I would love to hear from your camping experience.
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