Mushrif & Al Warqa
Dubai's green east: Mushrif Park with the Aventura ropes course and Dubai Safari Park
Dubai district · 2 places · 1 hotel
Mushrif and Al Warqa make up Dubai's green east beyond the airport: residential neighbourhoods with large parks. Visitors come here for two places — a ropes park and a safari park.
Why go
Mushrif Park is home to Aventura Parks, a treetop ropes course with dozens of obstacles, zip lines and swings for children and adults. In Al Warqa is Dubai Safari Park, the city's safari zoo with African savannah, Arabian desert and Asian village zones and a drive through the predator enclosures.
How to get there
A taxi or car is easiest: 15–20 minutes from DXB airport and about 25 minutes from Downtown.
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