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Pure white sand and turquoise-blue sea at Saadiyat Public Beach
Saadiyat Public Beach
Yas Waterworld
4 6
MAP V2 • Open 8am–sunset
MAP W4 • Yas Island • 02 414
2000 • Open 10am–7pm • Adm; under • Adm with lounger and umbrella
3s free • www.yaswaterworld.com This beautiful beach offers a nice
Rivalling Wild Wadi (see p78) and change of pace from the city centre,
Aquaventure (see p84) in Dubai, with a huge expanse of fine white
Abu Dhabi’s state-of-the-art water sand. The dunes behind the beach
park offers more than 40 stomach- are a nesting site for turtles and a
churning rides and slides, plus gentler refuge for other rare flora and fauna,
water-based fun for kids and adults while dolphins are sometimes
alike. Adrenaline junkies should spotted offshore here. The facilities
head for the near-vertical Jebel Drop include toilets, showers and a café.
water slide. If you want to enjoy the
Manarat al Saadiyat
sea itself, the nearby Yas Public 7
Beach has loads of sand, an infinity MAP V2 • Sheikh Khalifa Hwy
pool and lovely loungers to relax on. • Open 9am–8pm • 02 657 5800
• www.saadiyatculturaldistrict.ae
Great things are planned for Saadiyat
Island, although it’s likely to be quite
a few years before the development
really gets going. In the meantime,
a sense of the enormous ambitions
of this project-in-progress can be
gleaned from a visit to Manarat al
Saadiyat, hosting tantalising
architectural models and other
exhibits on the future island. The
striking metallic building next door
A jumble of slides, Yas Waterworld is the UAE Pavilion, designed by
Foster + Partners for the Shanghai
Al Maqtaa Fort
5 World Expo in 2010.
MAP V4 • Al Maqtaa bridge, on
Ferrari World
the right coming from Dubai 8
This quaint little 200-year-old fort once MAP W4 • Yas Island • 02 496
guarded the main approach to the 8000 • Open 11am–8pm (till 10pm
city and still stands sentinel beside Thu–Sat) • Adm; under 3s free
Al Maqtaa Bridge. The sand-coloured • www.ferrariworldabudhabi.com
exterior is adorned with carved The ultimate shrine to one of the
wooden doors and shuttered windows, world’s most famous cars –
with narrow slits above for rifles. appropriate enough in a city built

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