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A cultural treasure hunt through Old Dubai (Al Seef|Al Fahidi)
Desert Rose is an interactive corporate team-building quest in Dubai that combines a tablet-led treasure hunt through Old Dubai with live challenge stations hosted by professional game masters. Designed for corporate teams of 20-250 patricipants, the experience blends location-based missions, ciphers, search tasks and audio stories about the history, culture and traditions of the UAE with hands-on challenges focused on communication, teamwork, creativity and problem-solving.






Desert Rose
A legendary artifact has disappeared in Dubai - the Desert Rose, a rare stone surrounded by ancient legends and believed to bring wisdom, strength and good fortune to its keeper. The trail leads deep into the stories, traditions and hidden details of the Emirates, and only the teams taking part in the mission have a chance to recover it before it vanishes for good.
Guided by a tablet with the game app, participants follow the trail through a mix of search missions, clues, ciphers and audio stories about the culture, history and cuisine of the UAE. But the adventure goes far beyond the screen: along the route, teams meet game masters and step into live challenge stations filled with unusual props and unexpected mechanics. They might decode a mystery hidden across multiple sound sources, recreate an image using only walkie-talkies, complete a task while seeing the world upside down through special goggles, or identify Arabian spices using their senses. Every challenge is different — testing communication, creativity, observation and the ability to work as one team.
Piece by piece, every solved mission brings the teams closer to the final hiding place. In the finale, all the clues come together, the last code is cracked — and the legendary Desert Rose is finally revealed. The team that reaches it first claims the artifact as the symbol of its victory.






At a glance
- Format
- Digital quest, tablet-led
- Environment
- City streets · market
- Participants
- 20-250
- Duration
- 2-3h
- Language
- English, Russian
- Season
- Autumn to spring outdoors
Mechanics of the game
Mechanics of the game
- 01Teams
Participants are split into teams, each choosing a name and a captain.
- 02Captains’ briefing
While the teams pick names, the game operator briefs the captains on the app and the timing.
- 03Start
The host announces a code word, the captains enter it, and the route opens.
- 04The route
Each team is led by a tablet delivering hints and missions with audio, photo and video content.
- 05Finale
The winning team receives a real desert rose — a symbol of energy, courage, streng
Missions
Missions examples
Whisper of desert
participants discover a lot of sound sources surrounding them. From each flow, only one thought can be understood, but all thoughts are absolutely odd (seemingly). There are sounds, dialogue fragments, songs, poetry lines, everything. Having analyzed all the data, the team must guess what is inside the black box.
Changing reality
Wearing a special goggle mask that inverts human vision upside down, each of the team’s participants must approach the canvas. Then, on the canvas, they must connect three enumerated dots with a line using a marker, then take off the goggle and pass them to the next player. This is a challenge of unusual perception of space and teamwork with teammates giving clues.
What changes for you
The scenario, the difficulty, the language and the branding are rewritten for each client.
FAQ
Does this run in old Dubai only?
The city version is built around a heritage district. And also it can be done in Abu Dhabi, inherritage village.
How many tasks with props are in the programme?
It depends on the number of particioants (teams), timing and budget.
Get a proposal
Tell us about your team
Send the date, the group size and roughly what the day is for.
- katrin@sl-people.com
- +971 55 880 5773
- Dubai
- Business Bay
