Travel guide - Abu Dhabi | Petit Futé (French)

Abu Dhabi Smart travel guide with practical information and addresses.

The bet of Abu Dhabi ... half a century of black gold, a strategic location in the heart of the Arab - Persian Gulf, insolent rockets of concrete and glass, international renowned museums Guests in Guest - Stars, hotels and golf courses Arriving burning sands, an amazing multicultural society: it is urgent to come to take the measure (or vertigo?) of the audacity shown by this emirate of the emirates, the richest, The largest, the most visionary. So we will go to the yas, in a white steel saucer above the F1 circuit, we will visit the mosque Mosque Sheikh Zayed, then we will take the break under the 100,000 crystal facets of the Emirates Palace. The shadow of the Louvre, opened in , extends on Saadiyat Island, scholarly outpost facing the desert and its gazelles, hazardous dancers by dunes and salt lakes. Yes, it is here that running dromedaries mounted by remote - controlled robots, which rises more leaning than its old pisane sister, that the greatest architects prepare a marina of the arts and recreation, that Ferrari holds "shop" In the form of a park of attraction (carousel at 240 km / h !!). Around the 4.4 million tourists in 2016 Abu Dhabi, winning bet of a large territory like two Switzerland. Thanks to oil, in a few decades, a country was constructed - proud neighbor / cousin of the turbulent Dubai: did you understand? The golden age, here, starts today, mixing a patient quest for Bedouin traditions and the most extravagant of modernities.