Opened in February 2007 by the then president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi is the largest exhibition and convention venue in the Middle East, on Khaleej Al Arabi Street in the capital. Designed by the international architecture firm RMJM, the centre offers more than 150,000 square metres of combined indoor and outdoor event space, built to host major trade shows, conferences and public exhibitions. At its core sit a series of interconnected exhibition halls, s.....

A horror-themed escape-room venue in the Al Nahyan district of Abu Dhabi, BlackOut builds its games around suspense, darkness and live scares rather than puzzles alone. Escape rooms place small teams inside a themed, locked space where they must search for clues, solve a chain of challenges and find their way out within a set time. BlackOut leans into the realistic-horror end of the genre, using set design, sound, lighting and at times live actors to heighten the tension. Its rooms run to dif.....

Mangrove National Park protects roughly 19 square kilometres of intertidal forest along the eastern shoreline of Abu Dhabi, forming the largest contiguous stand of Avicennia marina grey mangroves in the United Arab Emirates. Designated a protected area in 2013 by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, the reserve serves as a critical nursery for fish, crabs and shrimp, while supporting populations of grey herons, western reef egrets, flamingos and the rare Socotra cormorant. The mangrove ecosystem al.....

Kept at a constant sub-zero chill within the Reem Mall on Al Reem Island, Snow Abu Dhabi opened in 2023 as the largest snow park in the world by area, covering roughly 10,000 square metres of indoor real snow. The attraction is themed around an imaginative narrative of a fictional snow-covered world called Snow, populated by characters whose stories unfold across the park's zones, giving the experience a story-driven quality that distinguishes it from a conventional ski slope. The park is organ.....