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The mangroves provide a rich natural hapitat and safe breeding ground for several fish species, sea snakes, turtles and commercially important shrimp, snapper, grunt fish and sea bream.

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This is al bateen beach

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Dubai creek is a saltwater creek

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This is what a mountain in UAE looks like

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Wadi Wurayah is home to at least 100 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. As well as more than 300 species of plants. Famous for its scenic waterfall set in Hajar Mountains, Wadi Wurayah is recommended as a must see in UAE 🇦🇪 off road and tourist guides.

It is a spectacular location with streams and pools dotted around the rocky outcrops.

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The Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman are linked by the Hormuz straight. This one is in Abu Dhabi desert.

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An Oasis is very famous in the United Arab Emirates.In geography, an Oasis is an isolated area in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source, such as a pond or small lake. Oases also provide habitat for animals and even humans if the area is big enough.
The location of oases has been of critical importance for trade and transportation routes in desert areas; caravans must travel via oases so that supplies of water and food can be replenished. Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route. For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames, and Kufra, situated in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara Desert.

Oases are formed from underground rivers or aquifers such as an artesian aquifer, where water can reach the surface naturally by pressure or by man-made wells. Occasional brief thunderstorms provide subterranean water to sustain natural oases, such as the Tuat. Substrata of impermeable rock and stone can trap water and retain it in pockets, or on long faulting subsurface ridges or volcanic dikes water can collect and percolate to the surface. Any incidence of water is then used by migrating birds, which also pass seeds with their droppings which will grow at the water's edge forming an oasis. It can also be used to plant crops.Liwa Oasis lies 220km south-west of Abu Dhabi Island on the northern edge of the Empty Quarter (the Ruba’ Al Khali Desert) and is one of the largest oases on the Arabian Peninsula. Its name is derived from the local pronunciation of the Arabic word “Aljawaa”, meaning either a green oasis or a peaceful place of repose. The 100km long crescent-shaped oasis is home to dunes of many different-coloured sands, and date plantations which make the oasis an important agricultural site of Al Gharbia (the Western Region). The annual Liwa Date Festival has made Liwa a star attraction for local farmers, whilst sporting enthusiasts flock to Liwa for its desert sporting events.

Historically, Liwa Oasis is closely linked to the federation of the Bani Yas tribes, one of which is the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, Al Nahyan.

Thanks to the Al Gharbia development project, the Abu Dhabi government is currently developing Liwa’s potential as a tourist attraction by establishing community facilities and amenities in the area.

Culture and History

Liwa Oasis was the last settlement on the northern edge of the 650,000km dune field which, due to its vastness, harsh climate and forbidding environment, became known as the Empty Quarter. The Bedouins tapped underground freshwater recourses to cultivate dates, and as a result, forty villages appeared in Liwa before the 16th century. However, with the rise of the pearl industry, Liwa lost its significance as the economic focal point of the region, and the leading family of the Bani Yas, the Al Bu Falah (Al Nahyan family), moved to Abu Dhabi during the early 1790s.

Yet the plantations of Liwa Oasis remained significant to the Bani Yas tribes, and throughout the centuries several forts and towers were built in Liwa’s cities to protect water sources and mark the lands of different families. Since the towers and forts of Liwa Oasis are usually privately owned or built on farms which are still cultivated even to this day, viewings have to be organised via ADACH.

The location of Liwa Oasis has meant that no adventurer throughout history could pass through the Empty Quarter without visiting it. Most famous of these explorers was Wilfred Thesiger, who crossed the vast desert of the Empty Quarter several times between 1945 and 1949 and rested in Liwa before moving on to Abu Dhabi. His descriptions of the oasis offer an account of the lives of the farmers there and how carefully they tended to their date trees, which they used to build their houses, as well as a source of income.

After the foundation of the UAE the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan launched preservation and development projects in the Western Region. Not only did Sheikh Zayed initiate the restoration of several forts at Liwa, but he also took a personal interest in the environment of the oasis itself.

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This is The Corniche Beach and what it looks like. It is located in the city of Abu Dhabi and from obove it is shaped as a curve. Between 2002 and 2003, land was reclaimed from the sea and the Corniche was extended. A Cornich is a road cut into the edge of a cliff, especially one running along a coast. The Corniche Road spreads across an impressive eight kilometres of manicured waterfront that includes children's play areas, separate cycle and pedestrian pathways etc.

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Coves are from a cliff when water hits the side and the rocks will fall
to create a cove.
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Saadiyat beach

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Selinas are dried up mangroves that die after a long time in the water

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It is a cliff near DIBBA

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The mountain takes its name from the days when local women would retreat to caves up here in order to avoid being carried off by pirates or rival tribes while their menfolk were away on extended fishing or trading.

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Jabel Hafeet is a mountain located in the United Arab Emirates it is near the border to Oman. It has a wadi at the bottom and it is an amazing place to go and take lots of pictures at

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A costal plain is a flat low lying piece of land next to the ocean. Costal plains are separated from the rest of the interior by the near by land form such as mountains

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The saadiyat beach is a tourism cultural project for nature and Emirati Hera tiger and culture.

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This is one of the biggest desert in the world

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This is a wadi located at the bottom of Jabal Hafeet.