VISIT TO GLOBAL VILLAGE, DUBAI

        21 December 2016 was an another fun day for our family.  Both the hosts, Vandana and Vishal, took their time out from their busy schedules, decided to make a trip to the world renowned Global Village situated in the outskirts of city of Dubai at a distance of about 25 kilometers.

        Global Village, Dubai is claimed to be the world's largest tourism, leisure and entertainment center. It is the region's first cultural entertainment and shopping destination.  It is the leading seasonal cultural extravaganza in the region and one of the best things to do each time you visit Dubai.

        Entry fees being AED 15 per head, the entry of senior citizens of over 65 years is free. The Village opens at 4 PM everyday till midnight. The Village is spread in a vast expanse of an area where big and attractive pavilions of various countries have been constructed.  It is evident from the main entrance of the pavilion of a particular country that all out efforts, preference, priority and  patriotism has been shown by the country in order to depict the real picture, conveying the message relating to their past history and culture by putting up replicas of their world famous monuments, national heroes, and their national outfits.

        Behind the main entrance, a sprawling huge trading center consisting of number of shops dealing with different kinds of native products like  household items, clothes, crockery & cutlery, scents, dry fruits, condiments, gem and ,jewelry, house furnishing and furniture, toys and other such local novelties and wares. Since there was too much walking was involved, a rental trolley was drawn from inside the main gate in order to carry Saisha sitting in it while we all would be walking around from pavilion to pavilion sightseeing, shopping and taking selfies at our own will and pleasure. 

        We had foreign Popcorn, a lovely dish, fresh cut fruit, sweet and cold drinks apart from shopping some foreign novelties.  We also enjoyed live Bhangra performance in the open air theater at India Pavilion for about half an hour.  The Bhangra Performance was so good that reminded all of us of our lovely Punjab.

        To me, however, The Village looked more like Trade Fair in Pragti  Maidan, New Delhi which is held in the month of November whereas The Global Village is a six months affair in a year.

       On return, we had a lovely delicious dinner at 'Kulcha King', an Indian Restaurant and the only one in the whole of the UAE. Satisfied, we reached at home, little overworked though!!