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Have you got crazy children making you mad with their tricks? If so, take them to Hawally Park, put them in the sky scraper and feel the pleasure of hearing them braying.

Wafra is a place in Kuwait close to the Saudi border. There are a large number of vegetable, poultry farms in & around Wafra. Also large number of sheeps & camels are reared in this place. Also Wafra is one of the places in Kuwait where you can find some greenery. 

Flight Experience is a company that allows you to experience flying in the cockpit of a Boeing 737. The cockpit is very realistic and provides you with a 180° view of the outside world. You can choose to fly in out of 24,000 airports and you can even fly around famous landmarks like London Bridge or the Sydney Opera House. The sessions vary in length and are either 30mins, 45mins, 60mins or 90mins and each session is led by a trained flight simulator instructor (most of whom are actual pilots).

For my museum tour I decided to follow the list on q8living.com and each post will cover one location. To make matters easier for me I’ll just post the text exactly as on the site while the pictures will be the ones that I took.

The Maritime museum houses artifacts from the the rich seafaring heritage of Kuwait. The displays were neatly marked with descriptions both in English and Arabic. Although the museum itself is quite small there’s a lot of interesting pieces that will take your attention. During the course of my visits this was one of the better maintained museums that I’d seen.

This place has been on my list of places to visit for a while now and thanks to a little break I got last week I managed to cover Dickson House and a few other museums. Here’s some info about this house from Wikipedia[link]

I’m coming close to the end of my museum series and the last couple of ones are probably my favorite. I read about this place in a Huffington Post article that called it a ‘hidden jewel’ so I just had to go find out for myself. Finding this place was easy since I was also in the area to visit the Maritime Museum. If you drive a little further beyond the Maritime Museum you’ll find yourself right in front of the Modern Art Museum. Location [Link]

This museum has many names and I’ve heard it being referred to as ‘The war museum’, ‘Saddam Museum’, ‘Memorial Museum’ etc.

The Kuwait House for National Works a.k.a Memorial Museum houses a grim reminder of the crimes committed the Iraqi regime during the invasion in 1990. You are greeted by a couple of surface to air (or some kind of anti-aircraft weapons) parked at the entrance and a very confusing signboard. Its like they couldn’t make up their minds on what to call the museum.

The Marine Museum located at the Radisson Blu Hotel houses approximately 30 scale models of various historical and existing dhows as a dedication to the traditional art of shipbuilding. The museum showcases a variety of marine articles, pictures of traditional significance and photographs. The surrounding of the museum is a replica of a pre-oil era Kuwaiti village fabricated using contemporary materials.

Masjid al Kabir is the national mosque of Kuwait. The Grand Masjid is the largest masjid in the country of Kuwait. This mosque is an example of different traditional Islamic architectural styles using modern construction technology. Its area spans 45,000 square meters, out of which the building itself covers 20,000 square meters .

Construction on the mosque started in 1979, and the masjid was completed in 1986 at a cost of about KD 14 million. It has become one of Kuwait’s most treasured landmarks.