Travel Long Haul: A secret life beyond duty-free Abu Dhabi is more than a transit airport: it's a desert paradise.

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 5, 1998| Author: Simon Calder | Copyright information

Think of Abu Dhabi as an onion. The outer skin is Abu Dhabi, the the largest and richest of the United Arab Emirates states. On the map, it sprawls comfortably across the north coast of the Arabian peninsula, reclining on the broad bulk of Saudi Arabia, an elbow poking into Oman. The next layer is Abu Dhabi, the capital, which occupies a bare slab of island in the Gulf; in a part of the world where everything is roasted to a crisp by the blinding sun, the city is an extraordinary, high-rise ...

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