About the UAE
Where is Abu Dhabi? How hot is it there? What are the people there like? This page will help!
- UAEInteract.com: The official website of the UAE Ministry of
Information.
http://www.uaeinteract.com/travel/hotels.asp
- Wikipedia article on the UAE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates
- The Gulf News: the main English-language paper in the Emirates.
http://www.gulfnews.com
- Click to hear a midi file of the UAE national anthem.
- There are great photo albums of Abu Dhabi and the UAE at pbase.com. Here
are some:
spoonbender,
philliperegnier,
colinandlisamoore, and the best one by
Brian
McMorrow
- See the
island of Abu Dhabi in a satellite picture from Google maps.
If you have Google Earth installed (highly recommended!),
click this bookmark.
- You can find more maps and links at
TheEmiratesNetwork.com,
or a Mapquest map
here (only shows some areas of the city), and a small map here, at
LexicOrient
It's 3690 miles
(5940 km) from Dublin to Abu Dhabi - about 7 hours flying time
from Abu Dhabi to London - Most expats in Abu Dhabi live in apartments, not villas. You can see
this is a photo of one part of northwest Abu Dhabi from
SpaceImagingME.com
- See Abu Dhabi (and Dublin's!) current weather
here
- Learn some Arabic: here with sound, at
Arabic2000.com, and here in transliteration from
MCS
Arabia.co.uk. LexicOrient (http://i-cias.com/)
is also a good site with sound, but the accent may be different from that in
the Gulf
- The average temperature in
Abu Dhabi in July is 41 degrees C, or 106 degrees F
- New! Moving here with kids? Want to know when the school holidays are? Nurseries, Schools, Colleges and Universities here
The UAE Flag - easy to remember - think of the letter "E" for Emirates, black oil underneath white sand and green oases.
