Holiday or hour, day or night, holiday tourist is in dilemma to determine where to spend his holiday, and European town or city or sea-shore somewhere in Southeast Asia is what comes to his mind. But to receive open-arms on the north seaboard of the Arabian Gulf is a nation which welcomes in open arms each and every one who passes by it with open arms and invites him on board on it. Kuwait. Its spiele-matically skewbald antique and über-nouveau modernist, Kuwait City is a Gulf Arab jewel—a gem which upon cursory inspection merely merely merely need be boisterously seated in order to be written on the page of any itinerarium travel’s.
Kuwait City
Kuwait City is a dystopian novel, a skyscraper novel. More fractured elsewhere but Kuwait Towers, loom above cityscape beneath their domes diagonal blue-and-green lines. Built in 1979 as symbol symbols, and sign of Kuwait power, and of imagination.
Sweeping broad arc across view deck, bird’s eye view of horizonless Persian Gulf horizon, bird’s eye view of city, and tourists’ paradise are savored by individuals. Dawn or sun set is photographer’s paradise and symbol of nostalgic scale of country’s past.
A Window to the Past at the National Museum
All the history enthusiasts of lost artifacts simply can’t help but miss this Kuwait National Museum. The four separate buildings which had long constituted the museum gave us a roller-coaster ride through the history of the nation. From Islamic literature and culture to pre-historic archaeology and ceramics, all of the galleries didn’t quite seem complete without the story of the ancient fish village being constructed as a new capital city.
And with crown jewel museum, beautiful Dar al-Aththar al-Islamiyyah showcase, and beautiful Islamic treasures somehow misplaced in alternative setting, then history enthusiasts, era enthusiasts of seal of approbation symbol in every way more for Kuwait as centuries’ heritage melting pot.
Souk Al-Mubarakiya: Heartbeat of Local Life
Souks of every Kuwait are deserted, but of anything so close so beautiful as Souk Al-Mubarakiya, rainbow hues. To walk through souk historic is past feast of scents—cardamom and frankincense smell which hangs on, pedlars spilling on to technicolour oceans of goods, halo of glinting glinting silver. Handicraft.
It is where gulps of Arabian hot food are taken from the fire, spit-roasted kebabs are swallowed, or laid on the crunch of oven-bread. Kuwaiti and foreigner walk side by side and moan about sirens of the bazaar overpowers Kuwait’s daily life. No rot but a Kuwait dream.
Coastal Serenity and Water Sports
Kuwait’s Messilah Beach is wedged between desert on east and on either side of seashore, i.e., west. Blue kissed golden sand blue water city border beach, play and diversion and rest and recreation. Safest and most convenient place with strategic position will certainly be Messilah Beach, its white pristine beach just perfect for family picnic, volleyball, or sunbathing.
Their adrenalin will be powered by a snorkel session, paddleboard, or jet ski viewing a selection of Gulf sea creatures ahead of them. Kuwait beach will never lack all the island of play or adrenalin activity.
A Rich Creative Community
There isn’t a lot of the old guidebook words left in this right-down beautiful Kuwaiti way of things. Al Hamra Art Gallery, within Al Hamra Tower, and filigree-packed Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre, or Kuwait Opera House, by whatever but more sacrally as one would title it, is a day out day out for tourist native and Kuwaiti.
Rotating Productions breaking down genre walls, concert, theater, and media discourse in counterpoint to Kuwait’s cultural beat. They are Kuwait’s generation-new dry, and new—executing Kuwait’s water-logged history and its unwinding on into the future.
An Invitation to Meet the Unusual
Kuwait is not consuming Instagram blogs and high-gloss magazines. But for the fleeting tourist, it’s rent-by-day times, culture-worn, life-enriched experience.
