UAE Visa for Sri Lankans: Types, Fees & Apply

UAE Visa for Sri Lankans: Types, Fees & Apply

Sri Lankan passport holders are some of Dubai’s most frequent visitors — for family trips, shopping runs, cricket tours and stopovers on the way to and from the Gulf’s large Sri Lankan community. The entry rule is simple, though: Sri Lanka is not on the UAE’s visa-on-arrival lists, so you need a tourist visa approved […]

UAE Visa for Egyptians: Types, Fees & How to Apply

UAE Visa for Egyptians: Types, Fees & How to Apply

If you hold an Egyptian passport, Dubai is close, familiar and heavily connected by direct flights from Cairo and Alexandria — but it is not a visa-on-arrival trip. Egyptian citizens need a UAE tourist visa arranged before they travel, and the airline will check for it at the departure desk. The good news is that […]

Mleiha Day Trip from Dubai: Fossils & Museum

Mleiha Day Trip from Dubai: Fossils & Museum

Most Dubai day trips chase the new. Mleiha, about an hour southeast of the city in Sharjah’s central region, does the opposite: it is a trip into some of the oldest human history in Arabia. People lived, hunted, traded and were buried around these rocky outcrops from the Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron […]

Dubai Weekend Itinerary: 2 Days, Hour by Hour

Dubai Weekend Itinerary: 2 Days, Hour by Hour

Two free days in Dubai is a short window, but it is a workable one if you plan by neighbourhood instead of by attraction list. The UAE weekend runs on Saturday and Sunday for most of the private sector, with Friday a shorter working day in many offices, so the city has a clear weekend […]

Burj Khalifa on a Budget: Cheapest Tickets & Tips

Burj Khalifa on a Budget: Cheapest Tickets & Tips

The Burj Khalifa is the one Dubai ticket almost everyone buys, and the one with the widest gap between the smart price and the careless price. The same view from the same deck can cost close to double depending on the hour you pick, where you buy, and whether you fall for add-ons you never […]

Best Areas to Stay in Dubai for Shopping

Best Areas to Stay in Dubai for Shopping

Dubai is a shopping trip with a city attached, for a lot of visitors. The mistake is choosing where to stay by hotel price alone and then paying the difference back in taxi fares — because Dubai’s shopping is not in one place. The malls, the gold souks and the outlet districts sit in completely […]

Al Qudra Day Trip from Dubai: Love Lake Guide

Al Qudra Day Trip from Dubai: Love Lake Guide

Every Dubai day-trip list points outward — Hatta, Fujairah, the east coast. Al Qudra barely counts as leaving the city at all: a 35–45 minute drive from the Marina lands you in the Al Marmoom Desert Conservation Reserve, where a chain of man-made lakes draws flamingos, oryx drift between the dunes, and the famous Love […]

UNESCO-Hamdan Prize Winners Named in Paris Today

UNESCO-Hamdan Prize Winners Named in Paris Today

Three laureates of the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development are being announced today, 5 October, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris during the World Teachers’ Day celebrations. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences named 10 shortlisted projects for the ninth edition of the prize (2025–2026), with the winners to be […]

UAEFA Charters 12 Fan Flights to Gulf Cup Final

UAEFA Charters 12 Fan Flights to Gulf Cup Final

UAE fans heading to the Gulf Cup final will not have to fight for seats. The UAE Football Association (UAEFA) has provided 12 chartered aircraft to transport supporters to Jeddah for Tuesday’s final against Saudi Arabia, according to the WAM report carried by Virgin Radio Dubai. The association first laid on six planes. After heavy […]

UAE Weather: Fog Mornings, 90% Humidity This Week

UAE Weather: Fog Mornings, 90% Humidity This Week

The working week starts humid, bright and a touch cooler. The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) forecasts fair to partly cloudy conditions, with convective clouds building over eastern areas in the afternoon and a chance of scattered rain, while humidity climbs overnight and raises the likelihood of fog or mist into the morning, according to […]