Attractions in Dubai

Located in the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, Dubai is the second largest of the seven Emirates in the union.

Dubai was originally established in the late 1950s and its purpose was to serve as a small sized coastal settlement. No one had imagined that it would become a modern metropolis with a large population and an economic juggernaut. Dubai offers some of the finest modern comforts to its citizens as well as visitors and is well known throughout the world as an ideal tourist destination.

Dubai is one of those places where nearly everyone of any kind of interest can find something to make them enjoy their stay. Whether you are on that vacation meant to be a relaxing interruption from work pressure or an active tourist who wants to go out and see and do something exciting, Dubai can help you.

Vacation in Dubai can also be mixed with international conferences, exhibitions, leisure travel, or just plain shopping. A few of the tourist highlights include desert safaris, dune driving, and exploring the wadis (dry riverbeds) in four-wheel drive vehicles.

If you have skied on snow but not on sand then here is your chance. Only in Dubai can you have a barbecue in the moonlit Arabian Desert. For those skilled with camera, a vacation in Dubai, offers many photographic locations like traditional architecture, old mosques, palaces, camel and goat herds, ancient wind towers, Bedouin villages, oasis, and palm groves; just to name a few.
Dubai has a lot of unspoiled, white sand beeches where you can enjoy the warm turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf. There is no better way to relax.

Dubai holidays can also take you into a historical adventure across Dubai Creek, Hatta, Sheikh Saeed House, Dubai Museum in Al Fahidi, Heriage and Diving Villages, and other remarkable spots.

Since it is 90% desert, the best time for a vacation in Dubai is between November and April as the whether is coolest in these months. Visitors should remember that the month of Ramadan is a holy period throughout the Arab world and it is very rude (well, blasphemous actually) to eat, drink, or smoke in public from sunrise to sunset.

One of the most special Dubai Holidays is to be taken at the time of the Dubai Shopping Festival. A month long shopping spree when the already crowded duty-free shopping malls of Dubai take a new form of life and incite people into buying commodities that would be too costly in their home country due to custom tariffs.