We went to Heritage Festival and productive families held at Fanateer South Beach. There were lots of people at the bazaar. The spring festival has actually started since 15th March and ended on 31st March 2015.
The event has two main parts which are
1- Productive families bazaar where Saudian especially women got to sell various items which are homemade. To me, this is a good opportunity for saudian women as they are now encouraged to work which somewhat could help raise their respective familes income. Plus to kill their boredom of only staying at home, care for children and go shopping.. hehe
The item sold ranges from homemade household knitted items, women cloths/dresses which are not abaya but the ones that saudi women normally wear at home, various saudian foods - , cookies and delicacies, abaya, henna drawings, jewelleries, parfums, makeups - the Saudian ladies really really really like beauty-based products as a lot of booths are actually make up/henna/jewellery/parfum based. I personally loved tasting the Saudian food sold at the food bazaar.
2- Saudi Heritage area which exhibites the various Saudi culture. There are typical ancient Saudi house, typical Saudi clothings, Saudi crafts - get to see in real life how they make saudi crafts and also some saudi historical pictures. I learnt quite a lot from this visit.
There are also children play centre and a big hang out area in the middle of the festival. Since the festival is located near the beach, my children loves the sand play the most. Here are some pictures for my safe keepings. Some pictures at the booth areas are shaky as they do not allow picture takings.
The Productive families bazaar area. Booths are placed in big tents. There are nearly 10 superbig tents placed all around the area.
Household booth
Jewellery booths
Food booths
Hot Saudian dessert stall. I forgot the name of the dessert. It that contained cooked chic peas + some spices like cumin, chili powder
Samosa
Notice the small yatch at the background - they provide sailing facilities too at the festival
For those interested could also play the water jet
Teapot by the beach Food kiosk
Entering the Saudi Heritage Showcase Area - we were greted by arrays of antique vehicles.
Donkey Kids Ride. My chidren loves the short ride
The Saudi Heritage Showcase area at a glace - a lot hand craft arts were shown here. We can buy some of the crafts as sourveniours too.
Men's robe making
Rehal making craft
Food Stall
More Crafts
Pottery making
Abaya and niqab making
Henna painting
Old Carriage on display
Furniture Craft centre
Live wood carving show
Typical old saudian house interior
Eagles - they are big. Their eyes were closed by caps to prevent them from making noise due to a lot of people and to to prevent risk of the eagles from hurting those who touched the eagles
Men only resting area. Women are not allowed to enter
I looked scared aint't I? haha the eagle is too big hokey and doesn't look tame - as if it wanna bite you.
High Quality Silk carpet craft
Miniature boat craft. Note: Jubail used to be a fishing village before Petroleum was found. No wonder a lot of ship monuments were on display everywhere (even at the centre of Jubail town roundabout)
Showcase of typical Saudian Home
More antique car display
Saudian Historic Display
Old Quranic Verse written on dried leaves
Mobile ATM truck is also provided. Alhamdulillah staying in Saudi feels so safe everywhere. Am not afraid of any pick pockets nor burglar as the enforces hudud here. Sandly the ATM is already out of money when we went there.
Ship crafting show
Met kak Hasni and her family, one of my coumpound neighbour at the festival
Before going back, our children played at the playground at the area
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