Sunday, March 10, 2013

Things to do in the UAE

I will be updating this list over the next couple of days...

Al Ain

  • Stone grill (cook a steak on a hot stone)
  • Al Noor restaurant (best moutabal)
  • A walk through the oasis
  • A trip up Jebel Hafeet (our one tiny nearby mountain provides an overlook of the city)
  • A desert trip - the sand here is more like powder than sand
  • Camel races (at this time of year they only race very early on Saturday mornings... is it worth getting up at 6?  I'll leave that up to Travis)
  • Camel market 
  • Downtown souk
  • Cross over into Oman (just to say you've done it)
  • Duning
  • Fort and museum at Jahili park. 


Dubai

  • Dubai Mall - World's biggest mall and has an interesting indoor aquarium
  • Emirates Mall - the indoor ski slope has to be seen to be believed
  • Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building... I've been waiting for a visitor to have an excuse to go up
  • Sheikh Zayed Road - I don't know if it is the world's only 14 lane road but it is hard to imagine a larger freeway
  • Burj Al Arab - it calls itself the world's only seven star hotel.  I'd like to go in but I've heard it's over $100 just to have coffee...


Abu Dhabi

  • Sheikh Zayed mosque - 
  • Qasr al Hosn - the oldest building in the country
  • Emirates Palace Hotel (the place with the gold ATM)
  • Yas waterpark
  • Ferrari World
  • A walk along the corniche (sidewalk along the Gulf)
  • Kayaking through mangroves 


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