Category: Places

The only way to walk into the Kalba mangroves is through the Khor Kalba Mangrove Centre, which charges AED 15 plus VAT and closes every Monday. Behind it grows the oldest mangrove forest in the UAE, with trees up to 8 metres tall and some more than 300 years old. The forest was closed to…

Arabia’s Wildlife Centre is a fully indoor, air-conditioned zoo for animals native to the Arabian Peninsula, so a summer afternoon is no problem. Adults pay AED 21 at the gate, children under 12 enter free, and the centre is closed every Tuesday. It opened in September 1999 and holds more than 100 species, from desert…

Global Village opens at 4:00pm every day. It closes at midnight from Sunday to Wednesday, and at 1:00am from Thursday to Saturday and on public holidays. Season 31 begins on Wednesday 14 October 2026 and runs through May 2027. Tuesdays are set aside for families, couples and ladies, and entry stops 30 minutes before closing…

The Al Rabi hiking trail is a free 4 to 5 km round trip above Khorfakkan, and most people finish it in 1.5 to 3 hours. It starts beside Al Rabi Tower and climbs to a 395 m ridge with views over the Gulf of Oman, Khorfakkan port and the Hajar Mountains. Two things decide…

The first view of Al Rafisah Dam comes over a crest on the Sharjah–Khorfakkan Highway: a lake between sandstone ridges, with a man-made waterfall running down the slope to the water. The dam holds back Wadi Shie in the Hajar Mountains and dates from the 1980s. The rest area, play areas and boat hire were…

Buhais Geological Park stands on a former seabed in Sharjah’s central region, and the mountain behind it holds rock at least 93 million years old. The park is closed on Tuesdays, and no shuttle or public transport serves it, so the trip works by car only. This guide covers the opening hours, ticket prices, what…

Walking around the Khorfakkan amphitheater and waterfall costs nothing, and the waterfall runs Tuesday to Sunday, 10 AM to 8 PM. The one charge most visitors meet is parking, which is paid every day from 8 AM to midnight along the corniche. Both stand on Khorfakkan’s waterfront in the Emirate of Sharjah, facing the bay.…

You can walk into Al Suhub Rest House for free. The car park is where the cost sits: AED 10 an hour on weekdays, AED 20 an hour on weekends and public holidays, with two hours free when you spend AED 50 or more at Fen Café & Restaurant. The building, also called Cloud Lounge,…

Silver and Gold tickets stop selling at 1:30 PM, and the last vehicle tour leaves at 2 PM. A visit that starts after lunch therefore only works on a Bronze walking ticket, and that one cutoff shapes most of the planning. Sharjah Safari opened in February 2022 and spreads 12 African-style environments across 8 square…

Wednesday 4 November 2026 opens the 45th Sharjah International Book Fair, a 12-day run at Expo Centre Sharjah that closes on Sunday 15 November. Entry is free, and Oman is the guest of honour, with its own programme of writers, thinkers and artists. The fair began in 1982 under Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al…

Shees Park charges AED 5 a person and opens daily from 8 AM to 10 PM. It sits in the Hajar Mountains above Shees village, about 70 km down Khorfakkan Road from the Emirates Road exit. Cars stay outside, so the visit starts on foot. Sharjah Municipality opened the park on 15 October 2020 after…

The cinema at Dubai Hills Mall is a 15-screen Roxy multiplex on the first floor, and its headline act is Roxy Xtreme, a screen measuring 28 m by 15.1 m. Tickets cost AED 55 in Silver, AED 182 in Platinum and start at AED 61 on Xtreme. The small details decide how the evening goes:…

Searches for “get your guide Dubai” lead to a marketplace, not a tour operator. When you book a desert safari or a Burj Khalifa ticket there, the contract is with the local supplier, and GetYourGuide collects the payment on that supplier’s behalf. That one detail explains how refunds, deadlines and exclusions work. Among the headline…

Entry to the Hanging Gardens in Kalba costs AED 5 per person, and the park is open from 6:00 AM to midnight every day. Parking costs more than the ticket, at AED 10 an hour. The gardens opened on 8 March 2024, when the Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, inaugurated…

Only one of Mleiha’s two heritage claims is a UNESCO World Heritage listing. The Faya Palaeolandscape around Jebel Faya was inscribed on 11 July 2025, the first desert Palaeolithic site on the list. Mleiha’s Iron Age settlement next to it was submitted to UNESCO’s Tentative List on 1 February 2023 and is not yet inscribed.…

Plan Sharjah around Friday. The emirate’s government works Monday to Thursday and rests Friday to Sunday, and the major museums open only from 4 pm on Fridays. Once the opening hours are right, the old coral-stone quarter, the museums and the Khalid Lagoon waterfront fit into one long day. Sharjah city is the capital of…

Until the Khorfakkan Road reached it, Shees could only be reached by a track that climbed a seasonal wadi from the east coast, passing through the Omani exclave of Madha on the way. Today it is a paved drive of about 70 km along Khorfakkan Road from the Emirates Road exit, roughly 90 minutes from…

The Eye of the Emirates no longer stands at Al Qasba. The 60-metre wheel left the canal for Al Montazah Parks in 2018, after 13 years as Sharjah’s best-known skyline marker. What remains is a kilometre-long canal in the Al Majaz area, with cafés and restaurants on both banks, pedestrian bridges, boat rides and a…

Around 100 members of the Al Ketbi tribe lived in this Sharjah desert village until the 1990s, and the sand has been filling their houses ever since. It is now a free, fenced site with a guard gate and a car park, about an hour’s drive from Dubai. The part that trips people up is…

Sonapur has no tourist attractions and no family housing. It is the nickname for the labour-camp district of Muhaisnah 2 in north-east Dubai, where employers house workers in camp rooms licensed for a fixed number of people each. The district borders the Al Qusais Industrial Area, and most of its residents work in industrial and…

Burj Khalifa me zameen ke upar 163 floor hain. Iske neeche basement parking alag se hai. Kabhi aapne 154 ya 160 bhi suna hoga. Ye numbers galat nahi hain, bas alag cheez count karte hain. Neeche har floor ka use, har number ka matlab, aur wo floors jahan aap ticket lekar ja sakte hain, sab…

Entry to Khorfakkan Beach costs nothing, but the car park does. After 15 free minutes, parking runs AED 10 an hour, and the fee comes off your Salik account automatically if you don’t pay by QR code first. That detail catches plenty of day-trippers. The beach itself is a 3 km crescent of sand on…