The Grand Canyon ?

Mutlaa Ridge from the road to Subiya. Photo by Equalizer

We decided to go where no man has gone before. Ok, thats an exaggeration, but the majority of people would be like," what? this is in Kuwait?" No sir, we are in the Grand Canyon. Atleast I can make people beleive it is. Why are people so lazy these days? What happened to the good ol' camping and "kashta" days?

I get a call from my friend in the afternoon reminding me of our arrangement to go shop for our desert barbeque. We head over to Sultan Center, after picking a few unfortunate wet logs from our home before we leave. We never knew its going to be this busy at TSC, but we entered anyway. On the end of one of the aisles we saw something that my friend found very funny, and when I read it, I cracked out laughing loud. This is certainly not the thing you expect in Kuwait and certainly not in Ramadan.


On Our way to Mutlaa, which is an area along the northern shores of Kuwait bay we found a few cars selling fresh home made goats "leban" or buttermilk, cows buttermilk, goat's butter and cow's butter all fresh from the farms. I had to ask my friend to stop. I could not live in this country and not have some of it's delights. So we stopped asked the young man to get us a litre of goat and cow's buttermilk. We seriously looked like foreigners given the amused look on our faces of this strange yet familiar thing we are buying. Then the looks turned into that of concern. We are buying a health hazard. Well, I don't give a monkey, I will still drink it.

Sun sets behind the ridge. Photo by Equalizer.

The adventure posse.

Menu:

- Indian Pakora

- BBQ sauce marinated rib eye steak

- Kobe beef burger smothered with hickory smoked BBQ sauce and melted colby jack cheese

- Sri Lankan Curry

-Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper

-Goat's Buttermilk

-Assorted Chocolates