Right next to the Dubai Miracle Garden lies the Butterfly Garden, the first butterfly garden in the Middle East. Due to the warm climate of Dubai, the Miracle Garden cannot be open all year round. Therefore, Dubai sought to create an attraction that visitors could enjoy throughout the year. The result is the Butterfly Garden, a stunning indoor garden filled with tropical plants, flowers, and butterflies.
The Butterfly Garden consists of nine domes where over 15,000 butterflies from around the world freely flutter about. In total, there are 32 different species of butterflies in the gardens, including the beautiful owl butterfly. This butterfly is the largest species flying around the gardens. A fascinating detail about the butterfly garden in Dubai is that all the butterflies fluttering around the gardens arrived in Dubai as caterpillars and transformed into butterflies within the gardens.
The Butterfly Gardens in Dubai
Before entering the main garden, you walk through a gallery filled with artworks inspired by butterflies. The highlight of the gallery is a massive collage of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, made from hundreds of colorful butterflies. After the gallery, you pass through special “curtains” to prevent the butterflies from flying out, and you enter the gardens. What’s remarkable about the butterfly garden in Dubai is that visitors are allowed to touch the butterflies. However, there is staff present to give instructions to ensure that the butterflies are not harmed when touched. You can’t simply grab butterflies out of the air; you need to extend your hand, and they will naturally come to rest on it.
Each dome has its own climate tailored to the butterflies flying around in the garden, but they all have one thing in common: each dome is filled with countless flowers, green plants, fruit bowls, and nectar, along with many fluttering butterflies. Thanks to the numerous windows in the domes, plenty of natural light enters, but the downside is that the temperature can quickly rise during the hot summer months. Since butterflies thrive best in temperatures between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius, the domes are equipped with air conditioning to maintain a constant temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. This is ideal for the butterflies, plants, and certainly for the visitors!
Tickets for the Butterfly Gardens in Dubai
Interested in visiting the remarkable Butterfly Gardens in Dubai? Tickets for the butterfly park cost 15.50 US Dollar per person for ages 4 and above. Children under 4 enter for free when accompanied by a paying adult. You can easily book your tickets online on the GetYourGuide website or via the Tiqets website.
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Tour to the Miracle Garden and Butterfly Garden
In addition to the above tickets including transportation from your hotel to the Miracle Garden, you can also opt for an English-language tour that includes a visit to both the Miracle Garden and the Butterfly Garden.
The tour picks you up from the meeting point at the Pullman hotel near Dubai Creek and then takes you to the Miracle Garden and the Butterfly Garden, where you can visit both parks with the guide. The tour costs 100 US Dollar per person and includes admission tickets to both parks. Children aged between 3 and 11 pay70 US Dollar. The tour is easy to book online on the GetYourGuide website.
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Location of the Butterfly Garden
The Butterfly Garden is situated right next to the Miracle Garden, approximately a 30-minute drive from Downtown Dubai. The entrance to the butterfly park is easily recognizable thanks to the enormous smiling and colorful plastic butterfly.
The Butterfly Garden/Miracle Garden is also accessible by public transportation. With the introduction of a new schedule, bus number 15 from the RTA now operates from the Mall of the Emirates to the Butterfly Garden. The bus to the butterfly garden departs from bus stop 4 at the mall’s bus terminal. A one-way trip costs 5 dirhams per person and can be paid with the NOL card. Always consult the RTA’s route planner for the most up-to-date bus routes and departure times.
From Sunday to Thursday, buses run every twenty minutes between 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm to the Miracle Garden and the Butterfly Garden, and vice versa. On Fridays and Saturdays, buses run every 15 minutes between 12:00 pm and 10:00 pm from the Mall of the Emirates to the Miracle Garden. The first bus on weekends departs at 12:04 pm, while on weekdays, the first bus to the butterfly garden departs at 3:56 pm. The last bus from the Miracle Garden to the Mall of the Emirates departs on weekdays at 8:03 pm and on weekends at 10:04 pm. The journey takes between 20 and 30 minutes, depending on traffic conditions.
Opening Hours
The Butterfly Garden is open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. The entrance fee is 50 dirhams for both adults and children. Disabled individuals have free admission. More information about the Butterfly Garden in Dubai can be found at www.dubaibutterflygarden.com.
