Angad and "The Global Village"

I've made friends with a 16-year-old kid named Angad, who also lives in the Arabian Ranches. He's one funny guy, and he's become my unoffical tour guide because he knows all the weird little facts and features, ins and outs, of this city. That's him in the picture above. It was taken at this World Fair type thing called "The Global Village" that comes to Dubai every year for a month.

"The Global Village" is right near the Arabian Ranches and Angad convinced me to go, saying it was a sight to see. He wasn't kidding. It's a big bustling fair and all these countries create elaborate stalls with samplings of their culture. There's fun rides and lots of icecream and musical fountain shows... It's a blast. It's also very very weird. As you walk through you slowly start realizing that these aren't your typical stalls. Sure there's the Japan stall and the London stall and the Thailand stall, but there's also the Kuwait stall...

And the Afghanistan stall...

And the Palestine stall...

And the Rwanda stall...

And spookily, the Iraq stall...which had a bunch of people hanging around outside, but was completely deserted from inside.