The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 2025 race course is one of a kind, featuring wicked sand dunes, sweltering heat, and unpredictable terrain. The drivers will be challenged.

With 60-foot-high canopies you can walk on, Thomas Heatherwick’s Al Fayah Park resembles cracked desert above and a secret garden below. In Abu Dhabi, a grassy European-style park requires constant ...

Surrounding the Liwa Oasis in the western part of the emirate is the Al Gharbia region, home to the Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter). As the largest uninterrupted sand mass in the world, the Empty Quarter ...

Dunes rise over valleys in the Liwa Desert, part of the world's largest uninterrupted sand desert. ABUDHABI ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Sama and I have a deal. I promise to hang on tightly when ...

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Abu Dhabi is often cast in the shadow of the vibrant Dubai, but the state is challenging its more celebrated neighbor as a premier destination. “Dubai has the reputation of being the glittery one,” ...

The best offroad racers are heading back out to the dunes, as the new rally-raid season gathers pace. Find out who'll be doing the moving and shaking in Abu Dhabi this week. As the drama of the 2018 ...

The Abu Dhabi Film Commission is understandably proud that Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures filmed at the Liwa desert, the large oasis area in the Western Region of the Emirate that ...

Editor's note: This report includes images of dead animals that may cause some readers distress. Dozens of cats were left to die in the unforgiving heat of the Abu Dhabi desert, animal rights ...