At a tour learning all about pearls at Suwaidi Pearl Farm
What was exciting for me was also the activities outside the hotel. There is a wonderful little pearl farm called Suwaidi Pearl Farm, which is about an hour away by car in a little fishing village. A very well spent afternoon learning about the history of pearls, the difference between natural and farmed, how they were originally found by divers and so on. Something which I didn’t realise, being a pearl lover myself, is that the first pearls in the world, documented 7,000 years ago, were from this region around Ras Al Khaimah, and Abu Dhabi.
Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to get to the desert adventures and the desert safaris, simply because they only fully open in season, post October. However, we did go to the highest point in the UAE called Jebel Jais and drove into the Hajar mountain range which is a cross between Petra and Ladakh. At the top, we saw the world’s longest zipline which is 1,680 metres above the Arabian Gulf and 2.83-km-long stretching from one mountain to the other. This is definitely something adrenaline junkies will absolutely love. There have been 70,000 people who have attempted the zipline flight, and zero accidents. So if this kind of thing rocks your boat, this is probably the safest place to do it.