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Dibba Al Fujairah

Dibba fishing harbour at dawn: traditional wooden Arabian dhow boats moored alongside a stone jetty in calm turquoise Gulf-of-Oman water, with the rugged steep brown peaks of the northern Hajar Mountains rising directly behind the harbour and soft pink-and-amber dawn light
Dibba Al Fujairah is the Fujairah-emirate portion of the historic coastal town of Dibba, set on the Gulf of Oman at the foot of the Hajar Mountains. The town is the UAE's main jumping-off point for full-day dhow cruises into Oman's Musandam fjords, alongside a working fishing harbour, public beaches, and several of the east coast's best dive sites.
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Ajman Fish Market

Ajman fish market at dawn: rows of metal-and-tile stalls under a covered hall with hanging fluorescent lights and beams of golden morning light, with glistening wet fish on ice beds across the stalls
Ajman Fish Market is one of the most authentic working fish markets in the UAE — a no-frills wholesale-and-retail seafood hall on the Ajman fishing harbour. Best at dawn for the live auction, with cook-your-catch restaurants next door turning your purchase into lunch.
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Suwaidi Pearl Farm

Traditional wooden Arabian dhow moored on a calm sheltered creek inlet in Ras Al Khaimah, with green mangroves lining the banks and a network of dark floating buoys and ropes marking the cultured pearl beds in the middle distance, soft early-morning warm light reflecting on mirror-flat water
Suwaidi Pearls is the UAE's first commercial pearl farm, founded in 2004 by Abdulla Al Suwaidi to revive the country's lost pearling trade. Tours run on traditional wooden dhows from the historic village of Al Rams in Ras Al Khaimah.
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