Articles tagged with "United Arab Emirates"
Moving around the UAE is easy and mostly cheap. The emirates are close together, the roads are good, and the only genuinely demanding driving is in the mountains.
Packing for the UAE means dressing for heat and for a Muslim country at the same time, and taking the medication rules seriously before you fly rather than at the border.
The dirham is pegged to the US dollar, so there is no rate to time. What varies is what things cost, and it varies sharply between emirates and between districts.
The UAE is small enough to feel like one climate and varied enough not to be. The coastal humidity, the dry interior and the cooler Hajar mountains each behave differently.
For a great many nationalities the UAE issues a visitor visa free of charge on arrival. The passport validity rule is stricter than it looks, and working on a visit visa is treated seriously.
The UAE has a short comfortable season and a long hot one. In the hot months the country works extremely well indoors, which is a real answer rather than a consolation.
The UAE for senior travelers: why the season decides everything, how to pace two spread-out cities, and what the healthcare and medication picture looks like.
Accessible travel in the UAE: why new infrastructure and deliberate policy make this easier than most of the region, what works, and where it does not.
The communities of the UAE: who actually lives here, the South Asian, Filipino, Arab and African populations who built these cities, and what a Black or Muslim visitor will find.
UAE festivals and events: National Day on 2 December, the shopping and cultural festivals of the cool season, and the moveable Islamic calendar.