all right hello everybody this is doug
how you doing today i am here right now
in kuwait city kuwait and right now i am
at the sheikh abdullah al-salem cultural
center
yes i said that correctly long name and
basically this place was built in 2018
and it's one of the nicest newest spots
to explore in kuwait got a lot of
recommendations to come here and see it
and uh it's definitely very very cool
there's not a lot of people right now so
my friend more and i kind of have it
to ourselves i think there's six
different pavilions covering different
arts and sciences more are there six
six zones anyway we're gonna discover it
real quick and then later we're gonna go
to one of the newest and nicest malls in
kuwait it's called the avenues mall it's
going to be awesome i've heard a lot
about it you know i love the malls in
the gulf so stay tuned here we go
discovering some of the newest nicest
spots in kuwait alright so right now we
are in the culture pavilion the arab
islamic science area so it's basically
talking about
arab world contributions to science and
language and currency and so on and so
forth and it's pretty interactive too so
that's that's pretty cool got a
model of mecca here and then here i
believe this is medina which i have seen
in real life you can watch that video
via the link at the top of the screen
shout out to my friends from samara in
iraq
i have scaled that minaret one of the
coolest experiences i had in iraq all
right so we just came out of fine arts
slash arabic islamic science now we're
going to go in what i expect to be the
coolest which is
space
this place kind of reminds me of the uh
dubai expo 2020. it's got that kind of
vibe to it
after you
ah so cold boys all right we're inside
the space
section
we've got a massive satellite above me
and then basically
little bits and pieces about the history
of space exploration and the future and
different technologies and things like
that all right so according to the
screen this is not just any satellite it
is a
two-scale model of the hubble telescope
check this out you got the solar system
mechanical you can see how quickly the
uh various planets move relative to one
another and the sun so you've got the
smaller ones going pretty fast around it
and then some of these bigger ones you
can hardly tell that they're moving
i feel like i'm back in star wars again
like in tunisia all right we're in
another pavilion this one is all about
like the human body and exercise and
and uh fitness and things like that
there's all sorts of games you can play
so there's basketball there's this thing
where you can balance on the platform
and you have to steer the ball through
the maze on the screen
they've got like a sprint challenge here
so lots of different things
kind of games that you can play i see
hula hooping oh that's fun all right
next spot natural history i think we
might have some dinosaur replicas in
here all right we got dinosaurs we got
the t-rex here
apparently these things were in north
america like in present-day united
states canada and mexico etc
in in
my home territory wow those things are
huge is that a pterodactyl
creepy looking look how long their
beak snout thing is look how big it is
what the heck command
it's too it's too disproportionate to
the rest of the body what the heck but
they they have the little little the
little red thing like a chicken
yeah
beautiful absolutely beautiful all right
check this out we're making a tornado
we're learning about the earth now
gather around kids we're learning
wow it actually worked alrighty guys we
are heading out of the cultural center
it was very very cool i think it's
mainly probably geared towards kids i
think it would be an awesome awesome
museum for for kids to learn a lot about
various topics but very cool thing to
check out and it was very well done very
modern we are gonna go back to the hotel
for a bit get a little work done and
then this evening once it cools off a
little bit we are gonna head to one of
if not the nicest malls in kuwait all
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now let's head over to the avenues mall
we are on the way people this thing is
so bright i can't even get it to focus
but they basically look like a bunch of
disco balls
and this is
the avenues mall
so
let's go eat some shake shack let's do
it hopefully
all right guys
we are in the avenues mall now
it is
so nice i mean i literally just walked
in i haven't seen anything yet but it is
very nice yes yeah yeah yeah we just got
in we just got in but but look at it
it's like it has a feel of being like in
europe or something and it's built like
all the stores look like building
exteriors so you feel like you're
walking down the street and it's dark
out right now but apparently all of the
ceilings here are skylights so the
natural sunlight can come in but it's
still very cool in here with air
conditioning and everything so it's very
very nice they also have like different
sections here where i think one of them
is like more kuwaiti traditional
uh like parts of the mall so this one is
like more european but we'll see like
we'll see like a difference we gotta
check out all the different zones yeah
look over there that one looks like high
tech okay so we're gonna check out all
the different zones hopefully and i
think this mall is absolutely massive it
is definitely like the the cool
it mall right now in kuwait so anyway
it's gonna be amazing let's go explore
what's up what's up
looks pretty cool it's wild it's like a
different vibe in a mall yeah usually
it's it's not structured like you're in
a town now we're leaving the what i'm
calling the eurozone
and we're about to go into future zone
that's my name for it
space future whatever you want to call
it this is insane
so
oh my gosh i feel like i'm in times
square
dude
all the tech shops here yeah all the
tech shops are here you've got samsung
you got x site which is like kind of
like best buy in america oh look at this
the little kiddos are having fun
interactive thing you step on it and it
and it moves
okay this is so cool man i think you're
going to have every brand possible here
you've got reebok you got adidas right
there
dji do you think they have one i think
they'll have it around here somewhere
and look at this like disco ball thing
up here okay so check that out here is
the disco ball
it's made of a bunch of tiny little
shiny panels i don't know if you guys
can see because it's so bright but
they're all individual
and oh my goodness this is like the food
court i think
or at least the beginning of it look how
vast this is
geez the ceiling is nuts
okay so you've got more shops on this
side you've got some food on this side
pf chang's blaze pizza
italy i've got in italy over there got a
mercedes-benz dealership
over here is food world
and we've got costa coffee burger shops
elotes oh that's from mexico okay a ton
of food
and i wonder oh up here inside this
globe is the movie theater
wow guys look we just walked to the end
of the part there's the mercedes
dealership
and
look how far this thing goes no wonder
why they call it the avenues it's so
long i honestly can't even see the end
of it like it literally goes as far as i
can see
what's up what's up over here is
something called the gardens maybe it's
like an outdoor area i don't know
this is
this is just insane i don't know man i
think this might be the nicest small
i've ever been in yeah i think it might
be nicer than the dubai mall
i think dubai mall like when you walk in
you can't see like a long walkway like
this yeah they have like go around in
circles and like different levels this
one is i think it's one level yeah well
i don't know how long this is probably
like more than a kilometer and it's cool
because it has a different style and
personality like you were saying you
feel like we're outside right now you
got trees you got all the different
each building looks different
during daytime i reckon we get some of
the sunlight yeah that's what they were
saying the whole the whole thing is like
like each each storefront each building
quote unquote is different
it's so cool hello hi jumping in here
real quick it's the next day but i want
to show you guys real quick just a
couple shots of what the mall looks like
during the day we were supposed to go to
the souk
but it's closed because it's friday so
we came back to the mall gonna go to the
souk in the next video but anyway
check out what the avenues mall looks
like during the day all right so along
the avenue that we're just walking on
there's this entrance and this looks
like it's the entrance to the real
luxury stuff so we've got gucci
we've got bottega veneta i don't even
know how to say that
we've got oh and there's a waldorf
astoria hotel up ahead i see her mace
what's this more gucci i see balenciaga
look at the ceiling here
it's like glass
and it's changing color kind of
oh my gosh
yeah this is the real luxury part a
golden escalator double escalator
there's someone playing live piano
got a nice cafe there
yeah this this must be the nicest
fanciest part of them all oh my goodness
and this fancy part
stretches
so far
so far can you see the end i can't
maybe maybe way in the distance there
there just must be so many brands every
every luxury brand you can think of all
right we're going up to the gardens
let's see what it is let's see what the
gardens are all about okay i think it's
mostly restaurants look at this
we got the seafood we got them cooking
right there
oh my goodness oh my scoop
is that moscow
it's iraqi
that's how they cook the fish in
never seen this possible really this is
on youtube hey how's it going
huh hi what's up how are you doing well
fine man how are you good
is this my schoof yeah that's my school
called it
you want to try some ah it's okay thank
you is this an iraqi restaurant it's an
iraqi restaurant with a twist of middle
eastern concept so we namely call it a
babylonian concept ah cool yeah the food
over here is amazing man yeah if you try
it sometime i'd love to this is so cool
where are you from i'm from india oh
nice work
bombay where are you from oh i love
bombay uh u.s u.s nice beers
yeah
thanks you too
appreciate it look at that iraqi moscow
here in kuwait i ate some of that in
basra which is just a short distance
from here oh we got big chefs that's a
great turkish chain amazing food
so i guess the gardens is just kind of a
garden themed area with a lot of
restaurants and greenery and things like
that this feels really really nice this
whole mall
i feel like we're not going to be able
to see all of it in one
i don't even visit like i'm at a mall
it's so weird yeah i feel like i'm
outdoors except for the air conditioning
and i know how hot it is outside
all right we've been walking for like 10
minutes in this direction
and we're still probably maybe halfway
down and this is only one section this
main avenue is only one section you
already saw the garden section out there
saw the luxury section over there
and yeah there are multiple other parts
of this mall this is just mind-blowing
i'm kind of freaking out it's so huge
this is like the nicest shake shack i've
ever seen it's beautiful
look they have a falafel shack here in
kuwait
kind of unique i kind of want to try one
just for kicks you might have to
shack
shake would be kind of gross
guys one thing you should know about
kuwait they have one of the strongest
currencies in the world so this is 1.5
kuwaiti dinar so one it sounds very
cheap right well it's worth three
dollars so this is really like four
dollars and fifty cents which is
actually a pretty good price still for a
sandwich
but yeah the currency can be deceiving
everything is like one or two or three
but they are actually normal prices and
it's definitely not a
cheap country generally speaking all
right we're at shake shack this is pawas
a real live kuwaiti man
[Laughter]
thank you man i appreciate it and uh how
do you guys know each other
uh we've studied in australia in
australia together
in sydney australia mate g'day man how
you going good day mate
all right so i'm just going to show you
guys what we've got here got a normal
shake shack burger fries or whatever the
important thing is i decided to get the
falafel shack or as mort calls it
falafel shake
and we're going to give it a try because
i you know i like to try these new kind
of items that you can only find in
certain places
so here we go it looks it looks okay
okay
not as good as a burger eight out of ten
all right we're on the move again
look at that we got double decker
restaurants here
and stores on this side
continuing on
so fawaz was telling me that this place
was built in phases right yes first one
was finished around like 2007-ish
then a few years later a few years later
the fourth phase which is the really
fancy stuff that we just saw earlier it
was finished only like two years ago
like a few years ago three years ago
yeah it was like okay so that yeah
because when i read online that it was
finished in 2007 i was like that's
impossible so that was the first phase
and then the second third and the first
okay okay so are they going to add more
to it or is it done now i think that's
the end of it okay
so now we're walking closer to the older
part which yeah looks a little more
conventional kind of although it's still
very nice and then we're going to walk
through the part that apparently is like
built in the traditional kuwaiti style
yeah yeah okay so that's gonna be very
cool coming right up all right here it
is this is the kuwait themed area the
souk
let's check it out if you couldn't see
the ceiling you would really feel like
you're outside right now this is crazy
all right we got lots of perfumes and
things in here little cafes got some
arabic coffee
desserts
more cafes and restaurants
oh i see a turkish ice cream guy over
there we've got a nice fountain in the
middle
hanging lights
and yeah a lot of nice restaurants lots
of ood
don't get too excited
i know how you saudis love your food i
honestly i honestly usually get like a
chanel or uh oh snail blue or something
like that oh mr fancy oh here we go
there we go
show us how it's done
okay
let's get some nice nice scent on my
shirt
very nice guys even the soup themed part
of the mall is just absolutely enormous
it goes in all directions from here
it's just
crazy and look at the ceiling too this
small is definitely the kind of place
that you need to visit a handful of
times to see everything because even
that like older part of the mall that we
went through
stretches way further than we walked and
the new part we haven't even seen all of
that the souk part is huge it's just
overwhelming seriously another iraq
shout out we got babylon gate right here
very nice
is this the is this the the main part
like the center of the mall yeah but
this is the entrance to them
to the newer parts okay look how big
this door is
it's so fancy
look at the lights on the
ceiling of it
okay this part
is the center let's check it out look at
the roof this one this looks like the
dubai expo thing yep too fancy man look
at this look at these cafes everyone
looks very nice and they're thobes and
chamacs
and here we've got the center
it's huge this is insane
i feel like i keep repeating myself but
this is just
absolutely
ridiculous
coolest elevator ever
it just comes out of the floor from
nothing
all right guys we're not seeing a movie
right now but we just came up to look i
i just can't get over how nice the movie
theaters are in in this part of the
world in the in the arab gulf
it is
so fancy so white so crystal clean
so many snack counters we've got all the
different types of theaters that you can
sit in with all the different you know
experiences the comfy seats and
everything some of the theaters you can
get them to serve you
full meals see like this right here
the ultimate fusion of fine food and
film
now at the eater
and you can get real food i did it in
saudi arabia one time it's just crazy we
don't have this level of movie theater
in america to be honest
yes yes say it again yellow yellow
come on someone has to say it yeah i
know out of soul
[Laughter]
all right guys we are headed out
thank you mort for driving
on these crazy kuwaiti roads we are
headed out of the mall
that was insane i think that's probably
the tenth time i've said that in this
video so this was just a little look at
some of the
nice luxury
newer fancy places here in kuwait there
are certainly a lot of nice places to
explore in this country and this city
this is gonna be the end of the video
thank you guys so much for watching got
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one bye-bye
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