Category: Day Trips from Dubai

Sharjah is barely half an hour from Dubai, but it feels like a different country — and in a way it is: a different emirate, with its own rules, its own pace and its own idea of what the UAE should be. Dubai builds higher; Sharjah digs deeper. It’s the country’s cultural capital, packed with […]

About ninety minutes from the Dubai you know — the towers, the malls, the traffic — there is a Dubai that looks nothing like it. Hatta sits in the Hajar Mountains, an exclave of the emirate ringed by Oman, and it trades skyscrapers for jagged peaks and a reservoir whose water is an almost unreal […]