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Sir Bani Yas Island

Wide landscape of Sir Bani Yas Island wildlife reserve at golden hour: a herd of Arabian oryx with curved horns graze on dry savannah-like scrubland, gentle rocky hills in the background, with a small thatched-roof viewing shelter to one side
Sir Bani Yas Island is an 87 km² natural island in the Arabian Gulf, 150 km west of Abu Dhabi, developed by the late Sheikh Zayed as a wildlife sanctuary. Today it operates as the Arabian Wildlife Park with 17,000+ free-roaming animals, three Anantara resorts, and one of the Gulf's only excavated pre-Islamic Christian monastery sites.
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Wadi Wurayah National Park

Dramatic landscape of Wadi Wurayah in the Hajar Mountains, Fujairah: a deep V-shaped rocky limestone valley with steep beige and dark-brown cliffs, a small clear freshwater pool and tiny waterfall at the valley floor surrounded by green vegetation
Wadi Wurayah is a 129 km² protected wadi in Fujairah's Hajar Mountains and the UAE's first mountain national park, home to a rare year-round waterfall and species including the Arabian tahr and caracal. Public access has been heavily restricted since 2014 to allow ecological recovery, and visits today are typically limited to the public mountain road or sanctioned guided hikes.
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