Oasis
Experience the traditional Oasis way of life, explore the native indigenous plants & benefits area to practice your cultivation skills! Remember to visit the Tree of Life - the Palm Tree - an important part of UAE landscape which gives food and builds our homes.
The Oasis has always been a vital feature in the life of the Bedu: these green, fertile areas that sprung from the desert provided both a refuge and essential resources.
Get lost in the native plants of the Indigenous Plants & Benefits area, where you can practice your cultivation skills, or visit thePalm Tree, the Tree of Life, where the abundances of nature help us make our food and build our homes.
These areas of cool respite in the desert are like our home of Abu Dhabi – a blossoming haven of life that springs from the desert and that continues to grow.
Indigenous Plants & Benefits
Learn all about the uses and benefits of the region’s native plant life in the plantation cluster’s indigenous garden. Become an honorary member of the Qasr al Hosn gardening club by planting and learning to identify the plants or hear the enchanting stories of the oasis under the night sky, surrounded by the goats which helped feed and sustain us.
Activities
- Indigenous Garden
- Gardening Club
- Story Telling
- Goats
Palm Tree: Tree Of Life
Discover why the palm tree is a symbol of life in the desert providing resources which permeate every part of Emirati life.
From the germination of a seed – which examines various types of date seeds, through the life cycle of a tree, here is where you can discover the unlimited resources we can take from the palms which grow in the oasis. The practice of creating baskets from Palm weaving, rope making from palm fibres and even house building show exactly how we used to live at one with nature, and how almost every aspect of this tree’s extraordinary store of useful resources has helped us with our daily lives.
Activities
- Dates Exhibition
- Palm Weaving
- Areesh House
- Rope Making
- Tree Climbing