Category: Day Trips from Dubai

Drive ninety minutes east from Dubai’s towers and the UAE changes completely: the desert gives way to the Hajar Mountains, and the road drops down to Khor Fakkan, a calm bay town on the Gulf of Oman that belongs to the Emirate of Sharjah. Fishing boats, a mountain-backed corniche, a dam you can kayak on, […]

Jebel Jais is the UAE’s highest peak at 1,934 metres, and it has quietly become one of the most rewarding day trips you can take from Dubai. Instead of another day of malls and skyline, you trade it all for switchback mountain roads, canyon views, the world’s longest zipline, and air that can be a […]

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 […]