Yesterday, we visited the GLOBAL VILLAGE in Dubai.
dubaichronicle.com
Global Village Dubailand is claimed to be the world’s largest tourism, leisure and entertainment project. It is the region’s first cultural, entertainment, family and shopping destination. Every year, it has 6 million visitors over an area of 17,200,000 sq ft (1,600,000 m2).
Global Village started out in the form of a number of kiosks in 1996 located on the Creek Side opposite to Dubai Municipality. It then later shifted to the Oud Metha Area near Wafi City for 5 years.Today, Global Village has 6 million visitors at its current location in DubaiLand. (wikipedia)
This is how it looks like from afar, during the day, 30 minutes early before the gates opened.
Mom and Inigo at the entrance gate
Global Village has over 26 pavilions each representing different countries. We went around the village for 4 1/2 hours try to sample each country’s culture. It was like going around the world for 4.5 hours!
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So are you ready to go around the world with us? Here you go…
Starting off with our current home…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
YEMEN
We tried different kinds of honey from Yemen. Eventually, we liked the “mountain flowers” honey and bought a jar so we’ll have natural Yemen honey for our pancakes.
INDIA
We liked the design of their pavilion.
SPAIN
SYRIA
The carpets in Syria are very nice.
QATAR
Of course, this trip will not be complete without a visit to our beloved home country…
PHILIPPINES!
MOROCCO
THAILAND
TUNISIA
LEBANON
EGYPT
IRAQ
AFGHANISTAN
VIETNAM
AFRICA
PAKISTAN
CHINA
MALAYSIA
SRI LANKA
IRAN
EUROPE
KUWAIT
TURKEY
BAHRAIN
JORDAN
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There you go! Thanks for joining us in our world tour!
Wishing for peace and happiness around the world 
This looks like a very interesting place to visit. I would love to look at all the different things for sale. That ferris wheel looks pretty big
Definitely an interesting place to visit! Sad that it’s closing in 9 days time. They only set this up from winter to spring and closes during summer. I didn’t get to take a lot of pictures of the things that are sold in each pavilions because of time constraint, but I did have a few nice ones I’ll share later.
Oh yeah, the ferris wheel IS big, and we tried riding on it. My son was not afraid at all.
Thanks for visiting.
Fantastic photos and I’ve been told it is very family friendly. My brother goes there with his family. Wonderful!
Very family friendly indeed. Aside from the cultural shops, there are restaurants, amusement parks, water fountains, a man-made river for boating, performances. Your brother and his family must’ve enjoyed his visit too.
Thanks for the comment eof737
Sure did!
That’s amazing. But I guess that’s what you can do when you have all the money in the world.
Thanks for the tour!
And I always enjoy your comments and visits to my f-stop fantasy blog at https://fstopfantasy.wordpress.com/
I have three blogs and have a hard time keeping up with everyone, so I can’t recall if you’ve visited any of my other ones.
Oh no.. we didn’t spend a lot coz we didn’t buy a lot of things
And I think most of the money spent there went to the rides at the amusement park 
I enjoy my visits to your blog. But I’m not sure if I have clicked your other blogs. I’ll have a peek today.
Thanks for coming over and commenting
No, no, no. I wasn’t talking about you, Nelson. HeeHee. I was talking about the emirate who runs Dubai. I He obviously has all the money in the world to build this wonderful place, as well as the tallest building in the world, to say nothing of that island he built to put nice housing on. No, I didn’t mean you, although I am envious to visit such a place as this. ;o
Hahahaha! I understand…
going around the world without a visa and the hassle of towing heavy luggages is so inviting!
some of my immediate family and relatives are residing and working in abu dhabi and they’ve been to dubai and other nearby emirates. they’ve been raving about your location and now, i know what they mean. such a beautiful place; i hope one day we get a chance too to visit middle east.
Abu Dhabi and Dubai are two nice ciities here. There are so many places to visit. I hope someday you get the chance to visit.
Thanks for coming over, Docgelo!
It looks like a fascinating place to visit. Around the world in 4.5 hours is great. But now I went around the world in less than 4.5 minutes through your blog. That’s awesome!
You can even go around the world in less than a minute if you scroll down faster
Thanks for the visit!
Global village is undoubtedly a bright idea!
It is! It takes a lot of money to organize something like this. It was nice to be able to experience different cultures in one place.
Looks so fun. Thank you for sharing.
Oh yeah, we had lots of fun.
Thanks for coming over
Very interesting. Looks like the world is just a click of the finger these days, haha… Must be a lot of fun especially so that you’re with your family…
The place is very family-friendly. There was an amusement park that my son enjoyed. It’s a small small world now in Global Village
by the looks of it, it is… haha… great to know your son did enjoy your visit…
brilliant photos. love the colors etc, great post..thanx..:)
Thanks for stopping by, Cobbies69!
sounds like you had a great time!
such cool displays. is this a one-time event?
and i noticed that Canada is missing – guess it must be too far away to be included here
thanks for sharing.
Hi Kris, thanks for the visit. It’s a yearly event, usually on winter time when people can go around without sweating a lot. Summer here is really hooooot so they couldn’t do it all year long. This particular one opened in November and will be closing this week. They will reopen again this November.
Hmmm yeah I didn’t see Canada’s pavilion, not even US. Most of the countries who participated were from Asia. I hope this year Canada joins so I could have a taste of Canadian products
Huh. I have an aquaintance who works in Dubai as a golf course manager, but I’ve never heard of the Global villiage. It looks like fun.
Oh he should tell you about it. I’m sure he’s been there
It’s a fun place indeed.
Great post my friend Tracking back for your old post Nel ,I think your busy well beep me if you have new post .
Thanks for always stopping by, Jake! It’s been a busy week for me at work and it’s only now that I’m getting the time to blog
Have a good day!