Private Tour: Al-Ain City Sightseeing with Lunch

Leave your Dubai hotel with your private guide and travel through the desert that surrounds the city, toward the towering Hajar Mountains. As you travel, sit back and relax as your guide chats to you about your destination of the day: Al-Ain or, as the locals know it, the Garden City.

After nearly 1.5 hours on the road, arrive in town and admire the palm trees and leafy streets that attributed to Al-Ain’s moniker. As the birthplace of the influential Sheik Zayed, the city benefited from his patronage and his passion for greenery around the desert. Your first stop is Sheik Zayed Palace Museum to learn about the man and his life in the city as you explore his former home. Discover the picturesque courtyards where he relaxed, and see his bedroom where he is said to have humbly slept on the floor.

Continue to Al-Ain Camel Market to experience a taste of old-world Arabia on a walk around the enclosures. A hubbub of hawkers’ haggling and camels’ braying, the famous market is as colorfully chaotic as Emirati markets get, so soak up the atmosphere and pose for photos in front of the humpbacked beasts that are traded around the gulf.