The two years old newest Kuwaiti Airlines, Wataniya Airways, have announced the cease of their operations immediately yesterday. The accumulating financial troubles have forced the airlines to shrink-down it’s operation earlies this year, focusing on the hot destinations only, but apparently that was not enough to save it from going down under. The company future
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Nice short documentary about Kuwaiti desert in spring. We really don’t have such content in the middle-east so it’s nice to see such a decent effort. Kuwait’s Desert in Spring الربيع في صحراء الكويت from Ali Younis on Vimeo.
(via People Daily) The new (inclining) hotel in Abu Dhabi, Capital Gate, has entered the Guinness Book of Records being the world’s most inclined tower with a height of 160 meters that leans westward at 18 degrees, 14 degrees more than the 4 only Pisa in Italy. Ofcourse the beauty of the Pisa remains in
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Tallest man-built construction in the world, Burj Khalifa, has not yet celebrated it’s first birthday, and haven’t even yet recovered from the public observation deck shutdown, and Jeddah is already expecting bids on it’s 1 KM tallest Kingdom Tower in the world project on April 14th. When completed, this will be more than 400 m
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When it comes to Guinness records in construction, very often you’re being chased, and will get left only second best, by Dubai. Their latest Burj Khalifa skycraper which opened in the 4th of January this year, is just another perfect example, setting up 14 world records, mostly related to heights. The construction which took 5
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World’s largest clock tower, which is also a hotel, is going to be built and launched in the Islamic holy city of Makkah. 43 meters in diameter, compared to the 7 meters London Big Ben clock, and rising 577 meters above the ground, making it only second tallest building in the world. The clock as
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One of the largest aquariums in the world, and one that is full of sharks, Dubai Mall’s Aquarium suffered minor water leakage that caused evacuation and chaos. A visitor it seems caught this short video for us to watch. Apparently, the incident was caused by a silicon joint failure, and was quickly put under control. Related
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Atlantis The Palm Hotel Dubai Brief: This hotel in Dubai is situated near the crescent of The Palm, conveniently located near a variety of attractions and conveniences. The Village Center is located only five minutes from the Atlantis The Palm Hotel Dubai, while the center of Dubai is only 20 minutes away. The Atlantis The
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Anara Tower, the 125 stories building, where art and culture meet. A mixed-use residential tower with world-class art gallery, celebrated public art, five-star boutique hotel built around principles of modern Islam. Raising over 600m in height, and located at the entrance to Dubai Media City on Sheikh Zayed Road, the new bizarre uniquely designed building
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Jazeera Airways is announcing six new non-stop destinations, two of which are to Iran, namely Shiraz and Isfahan, which are two popular destinations for lovely nature, and the latter is full of historic attractions, and being a relatively low cost country, this makes it in our current times an even much better target. The other
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