The beautiful nature of Sharjah's East Coast is a great place to escape the crowds and enjoy a quiet holiday. The seaside city of Kalba is a paradise with 300 years of Arabia's oldest natural mangrove forest.
In Kalba's Al Qurm Nature Reserve, the world's northernmost mangrove forest grows, with a height of 8 metres, stretching 500 hectares between towering mountains and coastal wetlands. The only place in the UAE can you see the endangered Arabian collar kingfisher, and it is also an important nesting site for hawksbill turtles and green turtles, as well as providing shelter for gazelles, crabs and a variety of seabirds. You can take a guided kayak or paddle board tour of the lush mangrove forests, and the turquoise waters seem to have a magical power to calm the impetuous mind quickly.
The Khor Kalba Mangrove Centre is an interactive eco-tourism attraction focused on education and conservation of local wildlife and marine life. With jetties, hiking trails, turtle ponds, aviaries and bird-watching platforms, you can explore the UAE's diverse ecological terrain and encounter elves in the woods.
Pleasing scenery always makes people have the urge to shoot, you can switch multiple angles to take photos and videos with a sense of luxury, such as climbing the castle on the surrounding hills, you can take a macro panorama of the mangrove forest from above, from the promenade across the lake, you can take pictures of the fairy feeling shrouded in golden light when the sun sets, and the most immersive one, of course, can only be taken when kayaking through the woods~
If Kalba makes you forget your worries, then stay here for one night~ Wake up in the original luxury tent of the five-star eco-themed hotel - Kingfisher Retreat, where you can ride the waves and catch the sea with gulls as companions.