Dubai Frame with TouringBee audio guide: the city at a glance

With the Dubai Frame audio guide, you’ll hear how the city transformed water scarcity into technology and legends into architecture. Here, pirates yield to engineers, pearls give way to oil, and dreams turn into projects. This is a journey through ideas and eras – where the past hasn’t been buried in the sand but continues to grow skyward along with Dubai.

• A pirate with an eye patch who decided to end his life more spectacularly than any movie hero and forever etched his name in the legends of the Gulf
• A Japanese scientist who crashed the pearl market and, unknowingly, pushed the Emirates to search for wealth underground
• How the sea became a source of drinking water – and a reminder that even miracles come with a price
• An architect who won a prestigious competition but lost his creation – today, only the Frame itself holds the secret of that dispute
• The legendary words of a ruler that captured the city’s fate and turned into a prophecy
• A tower that smells like its own fragrance – a rarity even for a metropolis used to astonishing the world

Please note:

• Entrance tickets are purchased separately
• The upper gallery has a glass floor — it’s spectacular but may feel uncomfortable for those with a fear of heights
• The audio tour begins in Zabeel Park, at the gate leading to the Dubai Frame, not inside the building