Where Modern and Tradition Meets

After we visited Sadu House and looked into the weaving courses yesterday, we decided to drive along the coast (Araibian Gulf Street) around downtown and go to Sharq Mall for lunch.

Lots of construction is going on here.

Roman Catholic Church, beside an Evangelical Church (not in the picture)

Independence Tower - a landmark that was completed after the First Gulf War. It is the 4th tallest communication tower in the world.  My younger son described it as "very futuristic."  I agree with him that it would fit "Star War" or any Si-Fi movies.

There are millions of masques in Kuwait. (I have not figured out the exact number yet.) I like this the best so far from the external appearing, as it has a strong contrast to the modern sky scrapers.

 

National Library

This is the bridge crossing Sharq Marina to the Souq Sharq Shopping Mall that is built on the Arabian Gulf. 

One of my American friends emailed me, "My pre-conceived ideas about Kuwait were certainly different than the photos you are sending."

The parking lot is on the water too.

The wall beside the entrance of the mall. I took this picture for my future quilting project. The patterns inspirited me.

The mall was built over 10 years ago and I like the lamps and the tiles (shrimps, sea weed and sea stars) on the walls.

Most of the people are on holidays overseas in the summer, so we enjoyed the quietness of the mall.

Do you what this is?  The answer is at the bottom of this post.

The Sharq Marina square outside the mall.

Coming back from the mall

Kuwait Towers

Kuwait Towers are famous Kwait's landmark that have green sequins on two globes.  It is a great place to view the Arabian Gulf and the city.

"Designed by a Swedish architectural firm and opened in 1979, the largest of the three towers rises to a height of 187m, and house a two-level revolving observation deck, gift shop and café. The lower globe on the largest tower stores around one million gallons of water.  The middle tower is also used for water storage, while the smallest tower is used to light up the other two. A collection of photographs show how the so-called 'barbarian invaders' tried to destroy the symbol of Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. (Lonely Planet)

Answer: It is a clock.

More question: What time was it in the photo?