Kuwait Towers

So after some 15 years I was back to Kuwait, this time not on vacation but to stay. Riding in the back seat of my cousin's car down the Gulf Road I spotted the Kuwait Towers ! and I go, Hey, Wait Wait !! I wanna click a picture of the towers and Lulu says: Don't worry Kev, your gonna be here for a few years :) 

Well after living a few years in Kuwait, at last I thought, lets go click a low light sunset kinda picture of the most famous landmark in Kuwait "The Kuwait Towers". So I packed the camera, stand and was off to the towers with my Mum (who is now on visit to Kuwait), my Sister and my friend Savio. We reached when the sun was still in the horizon so, Savio and Me both set up our cameras and waited for the sun to set and then we got trigger happy :) Took a few shots, sat a while, chatted, watched the people at the beach & headed back home. So down here we have the Kuwait Towers for you.

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Umm...now all those who are not from Kuwait, here is a small article on the towers taken from Wikipedia.

The Kuwait Towers are three towers of reinforced concrete in Kuwait City. The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaurant and water tower. It also has a Viewing Sphere which rises to 123 metres above sea level and completes a full turn every 30 minutes. The second tower is 145.8 metres high and serves as a water tower. The third tower houses equipment to control the flow of electricity and illuminates the two larger towers. The towers hold 4,500 cubic metres of water.

The towers were designed by Sune Lindström and Malene Björn and built by Energoprojekt, a company from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Vatrostalna, a company from Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.