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Guided trips through the Al Zorah Nature Reserve, a protected mangrove lagoon most Dubai residents have never paddled.
Rent a kayak by the hour and paddle the UAE's largest stretch of mangroves without joining a tour.
Kayaks launch straight from a mall car park into the RAK mangroves, where flamingos feed in the shallows in winter.
It is a self-guided rental, so you set your own pace along the Reem mangrove edge without a group to keep up with.
The night glow tour fits the kayaks with underwater LEDs, so after dark the water under the hull lights up as you thread between the mangrove roots.
You launch from the public lagoon off Al Salam Street and a guide leads you about half a kilometre into side channels the boats can't reach.
Fresh, flat water in a park built around the region's first man-made white-water channels.
The mangroves sit on a wildlife reserve island, so the paddle is about as far from city noise as you can get in the emirate.