The Sheikh Zayed Festival runs for five months on a large site at Al Wathba outside Abu Dhabi: heritage villages, country pavilions, a funfair, concerts and nightly fireworks, free to enter, in memory of the founding president.
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Like Global Village in Dubai it is a season rather than an event, and like Global Village its boundaries are climatic — it opens when the evenings become bearable and closes when they stop being so.
It holds a number of Guinness records for firework displays, which is the sort of claim the UAE makes frequently and, in this case, verifiably.
Free entry makes it, with Global Village, the most accessible large attraction of the Emirati winter.
PlanningA five-month window rather than an event; free entry, and it runs the whole cool season.
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