Cheap Flights to United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (also the "UAE," or the "Emirates") has developed from a tiny desert country to a sprawling Middle Eastern power due to one thing: oil. Petroleum has brought incredible wealth to the best-known of the Emirates, Dubai, which is one of the top locations for tourists in the Middle East due to the sheer scope of its futuristic building projects.

Dubai will likely be where Australians spend the majority of their time in the UAE. Part of the fun of Dubai is getting there via a flight on one of the region's airlines, whose in-flight service is unsurpassed. Once in Dubai, you will likely spend the majority of your time visiting and viewing the country's incredible skyscrapers, the attractions for which Dubai is perhaps best-known. The Burj Khalifa is now the tallest building in the world, with the observation deck to prove it, and the famous sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel calls itself the world's only "seven-star" property. Dubai even has an indoor ski slope in one of its malls!

Outside of Dubai, it is still possible to get a sense of the area's pre-oil boom desert culture. You can trek the desert in a jeep or even a camel before hitting the beaches, which are some of the Middle East's finest. Furthermore, outside of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, traditional Islamic cultural and social norms are more strictly enforced, meaning that a trip to the lesser-known Emirates can be a interesting break from the Western commercialism of Dubai.

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