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Practical Practical guide — getting around, money and the rules nobody warns you about

Your usual calling app probably will not work, one emirate serves no alcohol at all, and a common painkiller in your ba…

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Shopping Shopping — gold by weight, perfume blended to order and how to haggle

In the Gold Souk the metal has a fixed daily price and only the workmanship is negotiable. Knowing that changes the con…

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Family With children — theme parks, aquariums and gardens that only exist half the year

The fastest roller coaster on earth, an indoor park the size of twenty-eight football pitches, and 150 million flowers …

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Culture Culture and customs — what to know before you arrive

A country where citizens are a minority in their own cities, coffee is served from a spouted pot and a text message can…

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Regions The northern emirates — mountains, the longest zipline on earth and an abandoned pearl village

A peak of 1,934 metres where it snows some winters, ocean crust pushed up onto dry land, and a town its people simply l…

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Cities Sharjah — the emirate that chose museums over nightlife

UNESCO named it Arab Capital of Culture, it bans alcohol entirely, and its archaeology goes back 130,000 years.

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Beaches Beaches and islands — from free city sand to the fjords of Musandam

Sea that reaches 35 degrees in August, an island shaped like a palm, and a hotel that never actually claimed seven star…

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Food & Drink Emirati food — machboos, karak and the coffee ritual that means goodbye

A tea that costs a dirham, a dried lime that flavours everything, and a cup you shake to signal you have had enough.

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Nature The desert — safaris, the Empty Quarter and an antelope brought back from extinction

The largest sand desert on earth begins two hours from Dubai, and the animal on the national emblem was once gone from …

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Culture Old Dubai — the creek, the souks and air conditioning invented from wind

A city that lived on pearls until the 1930s, crossed by wooden boats for a single dirham.

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Cities Abu Dhabi — the capital, its mosque and a Louvre under a floating dome

A carpet woven by twelve hundred people, a dome that rains light, and the fastest rollercoaster on earth.

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Cities Dubai — the tallest building on earth and the city built around it

828 metres of tower, a fountain that throws water 152 metres into the air, and a metro that runs without drivers.

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