United Arab Emirates

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi is the quieter, wealthier, more culturally ambitious sibling of Dubai. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is one of the great religious buildings of the modern era. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the most surprising museum in the Gulf. And the Corniche — 8 km of seafront boulevard — gives the city a human scale that its tower forests suggest it shouldn't have. Three days here covers the mosque, the museum, Ferrari World and a desert safari.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Dubai

Dubai is the most audacious urban experiment of the 21st century: a desert city-state of 3.5 million people that went from a fishing village (population 60,000 in 1960) to a global financial capital and tourist destination in 60 years, building the world's tallest tower, the world's largest shopping mall, the world's largest indoor ski slope, and the world's most expensive hotel (Burj Al Arab, seven stars) in the process. The emirate receives 17 million tourists annually and has displaced many European capitals as a stopover and destination in its own right. Yet Dubai's remarkable aspect is not the scale of its ambition but its genuine coexistence of the ancient and the futuristic: the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood (the 19th-century wind-tower quarter) and the Dubai Creek spice and gold souks are 2km from the Burj Khalifa, and the desert is 20 minutes from the city centre. Three days covers the skyline, the souks, the desert and the extraordinary waterfront.

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Sharjah

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