Weekend Shot – Liberation Tower Kuwait
On the way to Murqab Fish Market, I look out at window and capture the upper portion of the Liberation Tower. I’d love to photograph the whole structure but I just can’t, this is the best view I can have inside the car. At the end of the day, I ended up having a fresh fish from the market and this partial part of the tower with clear blue sky..
According to wiki:
The Liberation Tower is the tallest structure in Kuwait. Construction of the tower commenced before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. It was meant to be called The Kuwait Telecommunications Tower.
When the invasion took place, construction, which was almost half-way complete, was put on hold. However, the structure received no damage, and construction resumed after Saddam’s forces were expelled on February 27, 1991. Upon completion in 1993, the tower was renamed the Liberation Tower, symbolizing Kuwait’s liberation from Iraq.
The tower contains a revolving restaurant and observation platform (in the first disc-shaped pod; now closed to the public for security reasons), and also houses radio and other telecommunications offices. The structure stands at 372 meters high (1,220 ft) at its pinnacle. The roof of the second pod on the tower is 308 meters high (1,010 ft)
Well, thats it! my snapshot entry for this week…
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Comments
Is it one of the tallest in Kuwait?
I have some fishes from Underwater World Singapore!
Win a free trip for two to Singapore! Details in my post “Postcards from Singapore”
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arabian lady,
thanks.. for visiting my blog.. hope to see you around soon 
manilenya,
talaga.. I’m glad that you liked it.. salamat po sa suporta
liza,
thnask, and have a nice monday to you too.
cultureshiok,
yup.. its the stallest structure in here in Kuwait to date..
trip to two to Singapore, thats great news!! I’l check it out and lets try my luck..:)
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Thanks for the narrative. That must be huge! What a beautiful sky behind it, too. God bless.
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its fun eating in a revolving restaurant up in a tower. i tried once we waited an hour to get a seat.
great capture.
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Nice tower and great photo!
It is lucky that it was not damaged during the war.
It makes me think a bit of Space Needle in Seattle, or the tower in Toronto, Canada.
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Hi, I don’t know if you’ve heard of the remittance boycott exercise for Nov 1 and 2. Please join us even just to humor yourself…
http://hkbigmind.blogspot.com/2007/10/november-1-2-2007-ofw-remittance.html
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amazing shot !
way to go brother
btw nice blog
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