Save time on your next holiday with our travel guide!

One of the best perks of living in the UAE is that it's located on a crossroad between Europe, Asia, and Africa. This means that there's plenty of opportunity for an international holiday.

In this travel guide, we've rounded up some beautiful destinations that offer visa-on-arrival for UAE expat residents and are less than 5 hours away by plane ride from Dubai or Abu Dhabi's major airports.

Are antique souvenirs your holiday spending weakness?

If so, it is might be an idea to skip forward a few lines.

Likewise, if your bartering skills aren’t so sharp, you should probably dodge some of the many tempting wares on offer around Uzbekistan’s treasured cultural addresses.

Tucked snugly between Switzerland and Austria in the foothills of the Alps, this minute but fiercely proud nation is packed to the brim with picturesque villages, soaring mountaintops, and turreted castles straight out of a gothic fairy tale.

A land with an unscathed take on nature, Mongolia may not be your quintessential bucket-list travel destination. But for an adventurer looking to get away from the urban rat-race, it’s an ancient sanctuary remotely tucked between China and Russia.

The country with Genghis Khan's imprints is wild and proud of its nomadic routes. Here, you'll find villages filled with yurts (Mongolian tent homes). You'll see the breathtaking sand dunes and endless blue skies. Here, you'll let your hair loose, mount that horse, and ride away into the oblivion.