Sunday, November 8, 2015

Trip Day One (1)

Arriving in Kuwait you notice from the sky how unbelievably flat and dry the region is, there are no hills or lakes to speak of whatsoever. Getting out of the plane the heat hits you instantly, average high of 116 degrees in summer! I get out of the airport and hail a taxi, in classic Kuwait white, the driver was a South Eastern Asian migrant working in Kuwait, part of a large migrant group in the country acounting for almost 70 percent of the population. I asked him to show me around the life of a migrant so he took me to the Bneid al-Gar suburb in Kuwait city about 20 minutes from the airport, this is is were a large concentraition of the migrants in Kuwait City live. A large portion of the population in Bneid al-Gar is Iranian so we went to a small Iranian shop and got Chelow Kebab that we ate while walking down the street. The suburb feels completely different to the rest of Kuwaits lush newly paved roads, and high rises, this felt more like the rest of the muslim world with small corner shops, satellite dishes and old cars.

The suburb as you can see is near downtown Kuwait City the central hub for work and play.

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