Day 4: Dubai in 3 days: the best itinerary
With this Dubai guide in 3 days We will show you all the places we visited and the things we will do on this third full day in the city, after the flight to Dubai, the route through Dubai in one day and the tour through Dubai in two days we did yesterday, knowing the ancient city and others of the most tourist places of the city.
After spending a couple of hours more than usual in bed, today we got up at 7 watching from the window of our room that fog so characteristic with which we had read the city used to dawn, but that we had not yet seen since We started the trip to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Rub 'al Khali in 9 days. Seeing that the day continues like this, we take the opportunity to work for a while and at 9, when the sky seems to start to let the sun go by we decide that the time has come to start the route of this Dubai in 3 days taking a taxi at the door of the Damac from Vogue, our accommodation in Dubai, which for 20AED leaves us in the Jumeirah Mosque, one of the essential places to see in Dubai.
Remember that a highly recommended way to get to know the city is to book this tour of Dubai in its entirety or this Tour of Dubai + Desert Safari, both with a guide in Spanish or choose to book the Dubai tourist bus, to forget about transportation and get to know the city in the most comfortable way.
Jumeirah Mosque
Known for being the most important mosque in Dubai, both for its architecture and for being the only one that allows access to non-Muslims, the Jumeirah Mosque, is one of the places we believe, should be visited in the city, although like us, it is only from the outside, since that being Friday, you cannot make visits.
In case you want to visit inside, we recommend modifying the visits to do in Dubai in 3 days and include it in any of the previous days.
Jumeirah Mosque, one of the places to see in Dubai in three days
Visiting hours: from Saturday to Thursday at 10 in the morning. The tour is guided in English, lasts 1: 15h and you can only access the mosque with pants that cover the knee, shirts that cover the shoulders and if you are a woman, cover your hair. In addition you must also take off your shoes to access the interior.
Price: 10AED
After being in this area for more than 30 minutes taking photos and staying with the desire to make the visit, since we have read, it is very interesting, we continue with the Dubai in 3 days, taking again a taxi for 17AED, our method Usual transport on this trip to the United Arab Emirates, now in the direction of Safa Park, a green space in the city that we did not want to miss.
Safa Park
Inaugurated in 1975, with the idea that this was one of the lungs of the city, Safa Park is today besides that, the meeting place of many places that come to spend the day enjoying their areas of recreation with barbecues and playgrounds in addition to the three lakes that are spread over its almost 65 hectares of land.
Although we understand that for travelers this is not usually a very special reason to approach here, they are the views of the city skyline, so if you have an hour early in the morning, when it is not very hot or In the afternoon and you want to enjoy a unique perspective of the city's skyscrapers, Safa Park can be a very interesting option.
Hours: Every day of the week from 8 am to 11 pm.
Price: 4AED / person
Safa Park
It is 11 in the morning when after taking a walk through Safa Park, we return to take a taxi that leaves us for 35AED in Al Bastakiya, another of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, where it is believed the first settlements of the city.
Al Bastakiya
Fully restored in 2005, in this beautiful neighborhood of Dubai you can find houses built in a traditional way, camel color that seem to be made of sand, with impressive doors and grilles at the bottom, so that women could look at the street , without being seen in addition to getting lost in its winding streets and seeing its famous wind towers, built to keep the interior of the houses cold, which seem to challenge the most modern Dubai skyline.
Al Bastakiya
As a curiosity we can tell you that years after its restoration, the government chose to demolish it to build a new office area in the neighborhood, but it was Prince Charles of England, who after a visit to Rayner Otter, an architect who lived here In a restored house, he convinced the emir that it was important to maintain this place, as a heritage of the city and I remember one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the city.
Al Bastakiya Mosque
In addition to taking a walk through its streets, another of the things to do in Dubai in 3 days, is to stop in one of its many shops or get close to its beautiful mosque, we recommend you stop at the little that is preserved of the old defensive wall of the city, built in 1800, where you can see perfectly how it was built with sand , corals and shells.
If you want to enjoy the neighborhood in full splendor, we recommend visiting it any day of the week except on a Friday, which is usually almost deserted and most shops closed. Also if you want to make some visits in this neighborhood, we recommend:
- Majlis Gallery: considered the oldest art gallery in Dubai here you can see an exhibition of Abdul Qader Al Rais.
- Ave Gallery: another art gallery, which in this case belongs to Fereydoun Ave.
- Taskheel: in this place you can see different art exhibitions.
- XVA Art Cafe: in addition to being a beautiful hotel, it houses an art gallery and a cafeteria in the central courtyard, where they say, it serves the best lemonade in the world.
- Sheikh Mohammed Center for Cultural Understanding: cultural center where you can get to know the city and the country in a closer way.
- Mosque: located very close to the cultural center, although you cannot enter inside if you are not a Muslim, it is interesting to see the outside.
- Arabian Tea House Restaurant & Café: this is the best known restaurant in the neighborhood and one of the best in the city. Without a doubt a gastronomic success.
Arabian Tea House Restaurant Café
And to follow the recommendations we give you on this route by Dubai in three days, when it is 1pm we approach Arabian Tea House Restaurant Café considered one of the best restaurants in the city as well as being a very photogenic and pleasant place.
We order different entrees such as halloumi, hummus, falafel and samosas, more coconut, water and coffees for 185AED, which we can only recommend, both for the product, as for the quality and service.
Eating at Arabian Tea House Restaurant Café
After lunch and when it is 2:30 pm we take a taxi for 40AED to return to Damac de Vogue, where at 3pm comes to look for us Asif, who will be our guide this afternoon at the Dubai desert excursion, with which we will continue the route of this Dubai in 3 days.
More practical information to prepare your trip to Dubai
- 10 essential places to see in Dubai
- The 5 best tours and excursions in Dubai
- The best desert excursion from Dubai
- 10 essential tips for traveling to Dubai
- Where to stay in Dubai: best neighborhoods and hotels
Dubai desert excursion
Known for being one of the best tours and excursions in Dubai, the Dubai desert excursion is undoubtedly one of the unforgettable moments that this trip will give you.
Although there are many options, we, after the experience, would recommend you to opt for the Desert Safari Excursion with dinner and show, since we believe this is the most complete and the one that best shows the experience in the whole set.
Dubai desert excursion
Although we do not want to discover you too much about the excursion, so that you can be surprised, we leave you a summary of the activities that you will carry out and what is this excursion to the desert of Dubai, which we believe is the perfect complement for this route through Dubai in three days:
- Pick up at the hotel at 3pm.
- 45-minute journey to the dune desert of Dubai.
- 45 minutes of driving with a professional driver / guide through the dunes. Adrenaline to the fullest.
- Sandboarding until the sun goes down.
- Sunset over the dunes.
- Once the sun has set, drive through the dunes for about 20 minutes until you reach the camp.
- In the camp you will be 2 hours enjoying a buffet dinner enlivened with different shows.
- During this time you can dress in traditional costumes, taste traditional Arabic coffee or get a henna tattoo.
- Once dinner is finished, return to your accommodation in Dubai around 10pm, where the route of this Dubai will end in 3 days.
If you want more information about this excursion, do not forget to read the post The best desert excursion from Dubai.
Dubai desert
We leave you a list of the best desert excursions in Dubai so that you choose according to your preferences, taking into account that we carry out the first one:
Dubai desert
And so, after 7 hours of excursion and enjoy as never before the desert and an unforgettable sunset, we arrive again at Damac de Vogue, our accommodation in Dubai after 22h, where we fall as children.
We leave you the map with the location of all the places and things to do in Dubai in 3 days, including some of the most tourist spots in the city.
Another option for this Dubai in 3 days, if you do not want to make the desert excursion or have more days, it could be going to the Miracle Garden, the largest natural flower garden in the world, where you can see a giant flower clock, a castle of flowers and even a A380 plane of Emirates in real size.
Remember that it is only open from mid-November to mid-May due to high temperatures.
Day 5: Dubai in 4 days
