One day in Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates
A day through Al Ain City’s best-known sights that lie close together: Al Ain National Museum, Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Fort, Al-Ain, Al-Murabba Fort, Sheikha Salama mosque and Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum. 5 stops, about 2.5 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Al Ain National MuseumMuseum · On the map
- Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Fort, Al-AinCastle · Next to Al Ain National Museum · On the map
- Al-Murabba FortCastle · 0.5 km on from Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Fort, Al-Ain · On the map
- Sheikha Salama mosqueMosque · 0.9 km on from Al-Murabba Fort · On the map
- Sheikh Zayed Palace MuseumMuseum · 1 km on from Sheikha Salama mosque · On the map
5 stops, 2.9 km on foot along the streets: about 37 min of walking.
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Photo credits
- Al Ain National Museum: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Fort, Al-Ain: Mosbatho, CC BY 4.0
- Al-Murabba Fort: Yushramahir, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.