Articles tagged with "United Arab Emirates"
Wadi Wurayah is a mountain wadi system in Fujairah, inscribed in 2026 under the natural criterion. It is the UAE's first national park and its only natural World Heritage property.
Faya is a desert ridge in Sharjah holding one of the longest records of human presence in Arabia. It was inscribed in 2025, which is recent enough that most reference material has not caught up.
Al Ain was the first place in the UAE inscribed on the World Heritage List. It is a record of continuous oasis settlement, and of the underground channels that made it possible.
The UAE suits an older traveller unusually well. The distances are short, the infrastructure is new and the healthcare is excellent. The desert excursion and the mountain road need a decision.
Almost everything a visitor uses in the UAE was built recently to modern standards, and the Dubai metro is genuinely step-free. The archaeological sites and the mountains are not, and we say so.
The UAE is one of the most demographically international societies on earth. For a traveller interested in diaspora, the subject here is migration itself rather than ancestry.
The UAE year has a fixed half and a lunar half. National Day and the cool-season programme can be planned a year ahead; Ramadan and the Eids cannot.
The UAE is used to visitors and generous with them. It is also a Muslim country with laws behind several of its customs, and the balance shifts as you move between emirates.
The UAE has an enormous international restaurant scene and a much quieter Emirati one. Finding the second takes a little intent and is the more interesting half.
The British government advises against travel to no part of the UAE. What a visitor needs is the law, and the law is not the same in all seven emirates.