Dubai
Skyline ambition, desert silence and gold-souk haggling within an hour of each other.
Best time to visit
November–March
Currency
UAE Dirham (AED)
Language
Arabic, English
Time zone
Asia/Dubai (UTC+4)
Dubai does scale like nowhere else — the world's tallest building, an indoor ski slope, a palm-shaped island of resorts. But the city's real charm is the contrast. Twenty minutes from the malls you can be dune-bashing across the Al Marmoom reserve, and twenty minutes the other way you're in the spice and gold souks of Old Dubai, haggling over saffron and abra-hopping across the Creek.
Time your visit for winter and the weather is perfect for beach clubs, desert camps and long evenings on a rooftop.
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Dubai in pictures
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