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Dubai

United Arab Emirates · 14 quests

History

1 quest
Shindagha Museum, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Shindagha Museum
Its rooms show life before the oil era

Nature

1 quest
Green Planet, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Green Planet
A whole rainforest lives under one roof

Art

2 quests
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Alserkal Avenue
Old warehouse shells hold galleries and studios
Museum of the Future, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Museum of the Future
Its windows are written in Arabic

Food

3 quests
Luqaimat, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Luqaimat
These crisp dumplings hide a soft center
Chicken Machboos, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Chicken Machboos
The rice gets its sharp taste from dried lime
Mixed Grill, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Mixed Grill
Several grilled meats share one plate

Beach

2 quests
Al Mamzar, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Al Mamzar
Five beaches fit inside one palm-filled park
Kite Beach, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Kite Beach
Kitesurfers gave this beach its name

Sport

3 quests
Meydan, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Meydan
The grandstand runs for half a mile
Zabeel Stadium, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Zabeel Stadium
Its home side wears yellow and black
Skydive Dubai, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Skydive Dubai
You jump out above the palm-shaped island

Party

2 quests
Level 43, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Level 43
The rooftop looks across Dubai from the 43rd floor
Armani Prive, Dubai🇦🇪 Dubai
Armani Prive
A high-glamour club sits inside a tower complex

United Arab Emirates

Photo quests in Dubai

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

Dubai holds 14 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, with no single one of them defining the place: Food and Sport are level at three quests each.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Alserkal Avenue. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 13 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers ten of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. The sport quests are venues, and a venue on a day with no fixture is a very large empty building — the calendar matters more than the opening hours. 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 Dubai quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

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

Nearby

Cities near Dubai

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 Dubai

How many photo quests are there in Dubai?
14, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), Sport (3) and Art (2). Among them: Shindagha Museum, Green Planet and Alserkal Avenue.
What is there to do in Dubai beyond the obvious?
One of the 14 quests in Dubai is 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". Dubai holds one at tier 1, three at tier 2 and 10 at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Alserkal Avenue, in Art.
Can you do all the Dubai quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 14 is 20 km from the middle of the Dubai list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Dubai quests can you do for free?
13 of the 14 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 14 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 Dubai means one quest: Alserkal Avenue.
How do I prove I visited a place in Dubai?
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 Dubai is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Shindagha Museum 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 Dubai 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.