They have these desert adventure tours where they take out some SUV's and drive like
maniacs jumping over sand dunes. It is pretty wild. They say they only use Land Cruisers
because they are the only popular SUVs that can handle it.
Overall the people are very nice. What I have found that holds true for the entire world is that poor people will kill you no matter if it's in a ghetto in Alabama or a poor town in Afghanistan.
If a country or a town is not poor then you have nothing to worry about. The people of the United Arab Emirates are some of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of doing business with and getting to know. Actually, on a quality of people scale they outrank most people in Los Angeles. LOL