Where to Go: the 3 Best Safari Tours Worldwide

1.4×4 Hatta Safari to Fossil Rock & Honey Bee Garden visit with Breakfast

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 81 reviews · from $90Our pick

Travel from Dubai to Hatta in a shared air-conditioned 4x4 with an English-speaking driver-guide. The day combines desert driving, a honeybee garden, Hatta Dam, Heritage Village, Camel Rock, Fossil Rock, and a simple picnic breakfast. Expect six to seven hours on tour, plus pickup and return traffic.

“Our guide was really friendly and knowledgeable and made sure that we really enjoyed our day. We traversed four emirates in a day so really got a sense of life for Emiratis outside of the big cities. The dunes, desert rocks and breakfast under a tree were real highlights. HattRead more”

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2.Hatta Safari & Honey Bee Garden Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 52 reviews · 5 hours · from $93

Travel from Dubai into Hatta’s Hajar Mountain scenery for dune driving, sandboarding, Fossil Rock, a picnic breakfast, and a hands-on look at beekeeping. Your English-speaking guide may be Javeed, Haroos, or Nowfar, and the small group is limited to five people. Hotel pickup and the Honey Bee Garden entrance are included.

“It was a good tour to see something out of the tourist zone. We loved it. The dessert, Hatta Dam and the Bees. Highly recommend to do this tour if you want to discover a little of this country. We had been 6.5h on the Tour and had been lucky that we have been the only guests. Thank you also for the nice Picknick. Our guide Nowfar was very friendly and a very good driver !”

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3.Off-Road Safari, Traditional Villages & Botanic Garden Walk

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $222Top rated

Join guide Mike, also listed as Maik, for a private 4x4 day from Chania. You’ll visit a traditional village kafeneio, follow rough mountain tracks through olive groves and gorges, stop for local snacks and White Mountain views, then walk the Botanical Park’s shaded 1.5-hour trail.

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