The Best Dubai Tourist Attractions

Aquaventure Theme Park

Atlantis the Palm, a six-star resort at Palm Jumeirah, is home to Aquaventure Theme Park, one of the most popular Dubai tourist attractions. It’s the Middle East’s biggest water park, set across 42 acres, and it offers guests an enormous variety of water activities, making it the perfect way to cool off for a day in the heat. Rides include multiple impressively themed slides, a lazy river, river rapids, and a beach. 

Whatever you do, don’t miss the Leap of Faith – it’s a towering 90-feet tall slide that sends riders careening into a shark-filled lagoon in the protection of a transparent tube.

The Dubai

There aren’t many better symbols of this city’s extravagance and growth than the Dubai, a mega yacht owned by the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai. Measuring in at a staggering 524 feet, 10 inches in length, it is the world’s second largest yacht. You can usually find it moored at Logo Island, which is on the right of the Palm Island. And while you won’t be able to just stroll up and take a tour, casting a gaze upon this mega marvel is good enough, and it’s immense size and symbolism of modern Dubai makes it a must-see Dubai tourist attraction.

Jumeira Beach

Jumeirah is the beach tourists think of when they picture Dubai’s ultra-luxury resorts, white beaches, and cerulean waters. It’s name means “beautiful”, and there’s no doubt that it lives up to its moniker. It is home to numerous luxury hotels, including the universally recognized Burj Al Arab, whose sail-shaped structure can’t be forgotten. Come to this Dubai tourist attraction to hang out on the sand, and to check out the many luxury homes built along it. 

You can’t leave Dubai without people watching, especially when it comes to the city’s super-rich residents, and Jumeirah is one of the best places to start.

The Dubai Mall

If you like to shop, drop whatever you’re doing right now and make a pilgrimage to the Dubai Mall. This Dubai tourist attraction just so happens to be the world’s largest mall, and it has been honored as the best shopping experience on earth. 

The Dubai Mall has more than 1,200 stores and services, including an ice skating rink, an aquarium, an indoor theme park, and the biggest candy store in the world. Shopaholics will find this Dubai tourist attraction to be their wildest dreams realized, or the bane of their existence. Either way, you have to check it out. 

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