Al Ain Oasis & the Falaj Channels
147,000 date palms watered by channels dug three thousand years ago — and still running.
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Al Fay Park
The Middle East's first urban biodiversity park — 2,000 native trees, textile canopies, and a hundred-per-cent birdsong guarantee.
Jubail Mangrove Park Boardwalk
2.6 kilometres of timber walkway threaded through grey mangroves on stilts — with a net you can lie on above the water.
Marsa Mina Murals
1,163 metres of painted wall along the old port — the longest continuous mural in the capital.
Masdar City Central Park Camel Sculpture
A camel in twisted metal with an impossibly stretched middle, standing in a solar-powered park.
NYU Abu Dhabi Campus
Twenty-nine buildings, one shaded pedestrian street grid — a liberal-arts campus built as a small city on Saadiyat.
Sheikha Fatima Park
A ladies' park from another era rebuilt as an urban forest of reclaimed materials, skate ramps and an open-air amphitheatre.
Special Olympics Gardens
Six permanent commissions in a garden outside Manarat Al Saadiyat — including a mirrored bridge you can walk across.
The Liwa Desert
The northern edge of the Rub' al Khali — the largest continuous sand sea on Earth.
The Wisdom Garden, Umm Al Emarat Park
Thirty of Sheikh Zayed's sayings cut into ten marble walls, in a garden of native planting and water.
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