The One Thing You Must Do When You Visit Abu Dhabi
10 a.m. and the temperature was nudging 28 °C (82.5 °F); the prediction maximum was 36 °C (97 °F) by lunchtime. Thankfully, the humidity in Abu Dhabi is always low so it’s much more pleasant than places like Singapore, where you start to sweat as soon as you leave the air-conditioned hotel.
The first thing you notice about Abu Dhabi is the cloudless sky and the blazing sunshine. The lack of clouds means there’s very little chance of rain. In fact, the locals can’t even recall when it last rained in the city.
When we left Ireland in late March for our first adventure in two years, it was still quite cold and wet, so the hot and dry weather in Abu Dhabi was definitely a welcome change.
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates and of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The city itself is still expanding and it has an estimated population of 1.5 million, 80% of which are expatriates from countries like Nepal, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, the UK, France and Italy.
The city itself is very accessible, and you can reach most of the tourist sites by taxi at a very reasonable price. Besides the grandeur of the Presidential Palace (Qasr Al Watan) and the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, there’s also the desert, which is a must if you’ve never visited one before. Besides, you don’t have to…
