I took the Kuwait Airways flight into Kuwait. The ticket is expensive, and service is not-that-great, in my opinion. Even my fellow Kuwaiti colleague feels the same.
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This the Kuwait airport. The airport is not the best airport I have been and things can be a little messy; made worse by my blurness (haha...). Nevertheless, it is a good experience for avid travellers like me to travel in the middle eastern countries. :)
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Designed by a Swedish architectural firm and opened in 1979, the Kuwait Towers have become Kuwait's main landmark. View from the restaurant Lenotre. The towers hold 4,500 cubic meters of water which then flows into the homes and businesses of Kuwait city.
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While there are three spheres and three towers, not all of them are for storage.
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A photo of the city with kuwait towers in the background. The dark strips in the blue sky is a result of dirt on the window where I took this photo from. Too bad, cannot open the window. Most buildings in the city are quite low-rise, and some building are under reconstruction and development.
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Taxis can be seen outside an office building on a very hot afternoon. Temperature can reach about 40 degree celcius on very hot afternoons.
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A rundown, abandoned house while walking around Kuwait Sharq area...
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A gate destroyed - crumbling in desolation...
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This is Lenotre, a prestigious restaurant in the city. This restaurant serves interesting and pretty tasty food. But I can say that the food generally is not exactly cheap in Kuwait as compared to Singapore. Singapore, despite being a developed country, generally still enjoy relatively lower cost of living in terms of food and transportation.
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Besides being a waterfront restaurant, you will also enjoy a view of the kuwait towers and view of the beach.
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A night's out eating at one of the turkish food restaurant in the middle of summer heat. There were some fans fitted with water mist sprayers to keep the air slightly cooler. Liberation tower is in the distance.
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In the market (which the locals called "souk"), you can find figs, nuts, raisins and different types of dried fruits and goods.
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A closer look at what is on sale at another stall in the marketplace.
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Went to Souk Sharq for dinner and took a night shot of the city from the Souk Sharq shopping complex.
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A quick visit to the Marina hotel up along the coast. The view offers me a night scene of the Kuwait coast and city skylines. On Kuwait's beautiful Marina, facing the Arabian Sea, this brand new intimate boutique hotel offers a central location in the heart of the swank shopping district.
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Kuwait Towers at night. The first tower is 140 meters tall and supports a water-holding sphere. The second tower is 180 meters tall. It also carries a restaurant and a cafeteria. The third tower has no spheres at all. It is used for lighting.
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The Kuwait Towers in the day. This was take from the big carpark. This is a major landmark of Kuwait. The war on Kuwait failed to destroy this tower.
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View from Hotel. You can see that the city is quite large and stretch all the way into the distance. The sea on the left and you can notice an arch of dark waters on the far left.
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Next to my hotel (marriot kuwait) is the Arraya Shopping Mall. This mall is not croweded and offers branded goods and a handful of restaurants and cafes.
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Just to let you have a feel of what it is like to be on the road in Kuwait. Signboards like this are present to help you on the roads.
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Had some tikki and naan bread from a stall located in the heart of Marina Shopping Centre. The shopping centre in marina is a higher class shopping complete with brand name shopping and food courts.
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Dubai: This is the Dubai International Airport. is considered the Middle East’s premier and busiest airport. In 2004, a total of 21.7 million passengers. Comparing to Singapore Changi airport of 30.3 million in 2004 also, Dubai airport is growing fast in this region.
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Dubai: Interesting Mascot in the centre of the staircases leading up to the second floor of the airport. The second floor is for department, first floor for shopping and third floor usually for arrivals.
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Dubai: It must have been a very tiring journey for this gentleman as he rested and slept while waiting for his flight out of Dubai airport.
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