Keijo Goes To Kuwaiti Dentist

Update to earlier blog; when eating at a restaurant, the filling of one tooth broke so I had to go to a dentist. Very fast but good service, though expensive. Hopefully my travel insurance covers this... but really needed this to be fixed as we travel to Oman early tomorrow morning.

Al-Salaam alaykum min Kuwait!

Greetings from this extra-ordinary travel destination, Kuwait City!

After landing, we followed the instructions Tomi and Vera had given us:
First, take a queue number to visa-granting desk, then exchange money. Fill up the visa applications and get the forms and passports stamped (total some 40 Euros). Then to passport control (the officers didn't even look at our passports, just welcomed us Finns to Kuwait 'al-salaam al-salaam') and collect our baggage. Tomi and Vera were waiting for us at the arrivals.

It felt surrealistic right-away after got out from the airport: some +35 hot breeze welcoming us at 2 A.M. Palm trees that have their own underground watering system gently waving in the hot wind. Couldn't believe that we were actually in Kuwait now.
But when a couple of days later driving around here and Tomi said 'okay if we go left here and drive some 15 min we get to Iraqi border', then I really understood that we actually are at the Persian Gulf!

Our days have a routine already. It starts with a breakfast, then hanging out at the pool, swimming and drinking water at the meantime. After this cruising around Kuwait City with Tomi's Pajero because everywhere you want to go here, is driving by car. Exploring the city, eating somewhere, drinking coffee somewhere else and in the end of the day drive back home.

When we arrived here on monday night, it was beginning of the last day of the Ramadan. It was just then decided, thet Eid (fest when the Ramadan ends) starts tuesday. Very interesting timing for us, as walking at the Arabian Gulf, the Corniche, the city literally woke up alive. So nice for us to just sit back at some coffee house and just watch people go by. We fast learned from Tomi, that the men wearing the white are called 'hattiwattis' and the women in black are 'ninjas'. I wonder what we westerns are called by them Arabs!

The souqs (bazaars) are much more nicer here than in Istanbul. It actually is nice to buy something from there, and so I got myself a 'jasser-arafat-scarf' to wear during our becoming treks in Oman.

There is of course so much to tell about the country, so many wonderabouts, but you will hear the best stories later on!
We are doing well, very well actually, and we are feeling very much alive! Tomorrow flight by Kuwait Airways to OMAN!
Oh man. It's gonna be great. Hear you!