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Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates · 11 quests

History

4 quests
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Emirates Palace
A new operator led to a two-year renovation
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Zayed Mosque
Its main axis points toward Mecca
Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Qasr Al Watan
No one lives in this presidential palace
Heritage Village, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Heritage Village
The village shows life before Abu Dhabi’s oil wealth

Nature

2 quests
Al Ain Oasis, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Al Ain Oasis
Its name means Oasis of the Spring
Mangrove Park, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Mangrove Park
Tangled roots turn tidal water into a forest

Art

1 quest
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Its name is borrowed until 2047

Food

1 quest
Mezze, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Mezze
Small plates turn one order into a spread

Beach

1 quest
Corniche Beach, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Corniche Beach
Three beach sections split up the shoreline

Sport

1 quest
Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Ferrari World
Its fastest ride once held the world speed record

Party

1 quest
Yas Island, Abu Dhabi🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
Yas Island
A Formula One track sits beside Ferrari World

United Arab Emirates

Photo quests in Abu Dhabi

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Abu Dhabi holds eleven quests across every category the catalogue keeps, and History is the largest group by some way: four of them against two for Nature.

Four of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other seven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers three of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Nature quests want weather and daylight rather than opening hours, so the season decides more about a trip here than the distance does. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Abu Dhabi quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The four quests in Abu Dhabi the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Abu Dhabi

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Abu Dhabi

How many photo quests are there in Abu Dhabi?
11, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (4) and Nature (2). Among them: Emirates Palace, Al Ain Oasis and Louvre Abu Dhabi.
What is there to do in Abu Dhabi beyond the obvious?
4 of the 11 quests in Abu Dhabi are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Abu Dhabi holds four at tier 1, four at tier 2 and three at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Al Ain Oasis, Mangrove Park, Mezze and Heritage Village, which fall under History, Nature and Food.
Can you do all the Abu Dhabi quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 11 is 142 km from the middle of the Abu Dhabi list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Abu Dhabi quests can you do for free?
7 of the 11 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 11 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Abu Dhabi means four quests: Al Ain Oasis, Mangrove Park, Mezze and Heritage Village.
How do I prove I visited a place in Abu Dhabi?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Abu Dhabi is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Emirates Palace fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Abu Dhabi sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.