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| Saudi Arabia Pavilion |
Why are there always extremely long queues snaked around the Saudi Arabia Pavilion in Shanghai Expo 2010? The longest queue-up time was once estimated to be 9 hours. It's crazy. What is in the pavilion? Many people raise a great curiosity about the attractions of the Saudi Arabia Pavilion. Is it worth spending tremendous time on the queues? Only after I have visited the Saudi Arabia Pavilion, I start understanding why a great number of visitors are willing to sacrifice their time for the admissions. My friends who have visited Saudi Arabia Pavilion agree with me that the pavilion has given us a beautiful memory.
The outlook of Saudi Arabia Pavilion is super charming. It features a giant hanging boat shaped like a half moon resting with a dozen of steel poles on the elevated ground. Underneath are pools, fountains, and gardens. When entering the garden, visitors will see a barrier in the style of a mini Chinese Great Wall. When leaving the garden, people will see date palm trees stand along both sides of the exit. Along the edge of the moon boat that is high up in the sky, a large belt-shaped TV revolving screen presents various artistic patterns in turns with welcome notices in different languages. Date palms are also planted on the top deck of the boat to form part of the rooftop garden. The boat appears to be full of dreams and imaginations.
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| The spiral walkway |
After we had entered the pavilion, we walked up along a ramp. Both the entrance and exit pathways form part of the atrium hall. The entrance in the form of a continuous upward spiral ramp was on the outer circle of the atrium, while the exit pathway was located at the inner circle in spiral downward direction. There was a transparent barrier separated the entrance and exit pathways. A fountain was sited at the ground level in the hollow center of the atrium hall. After walking up for about three circles' turns, we reached the top level of the boat. We saw a warning notice before getting into the main pavilion. The notice wrote, "The film may cause dizziness. For those who suffer from heart disease or hypertension, please consider carefully". Passing through the door, we stepped onto a conveyor belt. The conveyor made us move slowly along the body of a round-shape giant theater. Initially, we were in the darkness. But then, we found ourselves embraced by a huge inverted movie screen. The huge concave screen was far under our feet and extended to our sides. This is the largest cinema in the world, I believe. The movie introduced the distinct features of Saudi Arabia including their people, natural environment, cities, culture, lifestyles, and arts. I loved the background music which seemed to be in Arabic style. It gave us a sense of comfort, like flying over wild fields. Following the movie' pathways to various areas in Saudi Arabia, we felt that we had experienced a journey of thousand miles. As we were standing on the moving conveyor and the desserts and oases moved from far to close projections below us, we had a feeling like staying on a flying saucer. It was grand and amazing. The journey was wonderful and fantastic.
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