From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Summer in Abu Dhabi

by witsandnuts on August 2, 2009

This post won’t tackle the weather in UAE, but of a theme park.

summer in abu dhabi

Summer in Abu Dhabi is a theme park that opens only from July 1 to August 15 every year. It’s dubbed like that considering that July and August are summer months in this part of the world.

ticket booth
(The ticket booth has separate lines for ladies, families and credit card purchases. I haven’t checked where to queue for the “all else” category since my tickets were gifted by a friend and her husband.)

The attractions are grouped into a per island concept to cover the following: culture and heritage, adventure, science and technology, entertainment and sports. As you reach the atrium, you’d be instantly entertained by the trapeze set:

acrobat

It has a garden-like environment showing a tree house which offers freefall skydive simulations (which didn’t appeal much to me, hence, I didn’t try. Parang tatalon ka lang, that’s all. The indoor skydiving is far much better.), oversized flowers and walking trees like them:

trunk women

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