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UAC - Uae adventures club considered the leading off roading club in Uae since the last 8 years . Many of others off-roading club got trained and became a marshals then they left to join some other of roading clubs . So UAC considered as the off roading academy

How many Off-road clubs are active in the UAE? I started off-road driving long ago with my dad's old beaten up land rover, and spent good amount of time in learning off-road driving in the uae for last few years. I joined few clubs in 2004 - 2008 briefly but I wasn't able to keep pace as I was not very regular in off road and started going out with my friends and family instead. Can you guys please help me list all the operational and active off-road clubs in the UAE? I have listed few that I just checked their website and Im sure this list will grow in few days. I am preparing this list for myself and all other new to off-road, as google search shows highly souped up car websites that is far from actual off-road driving. In coming few months, I like to start off-road again as my three friends with who I use to venture are leaving Dubai shortly. If you happen to drive with anyone of these clubs, appreciate some insider feedback on how active it is and what type of people generally participate in weekly drives, what are the major nationality breakdown, what level of drives you guys arrange, which part of UAE do you usually venture etc. Before anyone jump the gun in commenting why my club is below and others are on top, so to be unbiased I have made the list in alphabetical order to respect everyone. Carnity Off-Road Club Abu Dhabi 4x4 club Almost 4x4 Off-Road Club Arabian Offroad Academy Dubai Offroaders Emarat 4x4 Emirates Offroaders Fury Enterprises Just Offroaders Oryx 4x4 UAE Adventures Club (Facebook Group) UAE Offroaders

And let me add Oryx : The Oryx 4x4 We are very fortunate to have so many clubs to choose from. For harryd - I hear you. Try AD4x4 and TheOryx if you are as language limited as I am. Both enforce almost exclusive use of the one common language in the region, English, and both have radio discipline. Although if you were driving on my team on Friday's GPS Hunt I did make you listen to a few minutes of my singing on air.. "Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', they gonna do what they say can't be done..." It was a long 6 hours at a newbie's pace to teach proper GPS use...lol.

http://www.furyenterprises.com here is link ... By the way fury is a rally drivers team by emil khneisser and michal fadel both used to be a fun drivers which u can say it was istablished in 1996 . I guess it was the first club in uae . It is still a fun drive club for experts to share there experince And also UDL Uae desert leaders are a very active and amazing trips . They are on face book

For those interested in the national make-up of the clubs mentioned, I think the Alexa graphs have a lot of info. If you'll notice, some of the clubs have a real decrease in visitors in the second half of December - notably AD4x4 and UAEOffroaders. I think it is very safe to say that these are two clubs with a fair number of expats - people that went home in the second half of December. But that info is not really useful. For example, AD4x4 has a large expat membership, and an official "English language spoken" policy, and all trip briefings, web site content, radio messages, etc. are all supposed to be in English. And by and large that is true - but there are exceptions. A lot of the night drives have very heavy UAE national participation, and Arabic is spoken much more commonly - sometimes a lot more than English. I don't know how some of the other clubs are, but my guess is that the nationality of a gathering is flexible and there will always be variances depending upon the day and the trip. The smaller clubs are obviously more consistent...for example TheOryx is very much an English language club...unless you happen to take a bunch of (Danish?) friends along on a drive and then find that your campfire discussion has lapsed into Danish. These things happen. You just have to be flexible and open to getting some great cross-cultural experiences. Having said that, it is worthless to join a club that is exclusively Arabic speaking (including any radio messages and their website) unless you speak some Arabic. But that should be apparent early on...

hey guys its my first participation. let me add one more group to above list UAE Adventures Club the group is active with weekly programs and for levels they have all levels and trying to cover all Emirates area ( Dubai, AD, Al Ain & WR) the aim and vision of the group to learn drivers how to drive in desert and teach them Technics. https://www.facebook.com/groups/UAC4X4/ https://www.facebook.com/uac4X4/timeline

For the curious people please find the Alexa ranking based on traffic, unique visitors, etc.

Just to add a few: 8) TheOryx4x4 - a splinter club from AbuDhabi4x4 created when a few marshals left to do something smaller and more personable, and with fewer rules. Some great drivers and great people, with more of a social life than AD4x4. (I'm not knocking AD4x4, I think they are a great, great club and perhaps the best club for newbies to get an intro to the sport). Very good club for those with limited Arabic. 9) Fury4x4 - a bunch of insane, adventure seeking drivers who go all out. A great club if you have the skills to hang with them and don't mind risking your vehicle on occasion. The few that I have met are great guys too. I should also point out that a great many drivers belong to more than one club. Gives more choices of drives and trips on a given weekend, and expands your social circle.

I have driven with almost4x4 guys for some time and they far more organized and safer club to drive in neighborhood who respect cars and life (enuf said).

Good list buddy and nice to put all links in one place handy, I used to offroad long ago with a club called dubai desert club. I am not sure wehter it's still there or not. We use to do different level of drives from small level to expert level and every one can join any drive as per their own level and comfort. we use to be in an round dubai only and sometime went to sweihan side. Mostly used to be asian crowd with very few arabic boys.