Dubai Shopping Festival is back
On the chilly evening of 22 February, 221 men of different ages and desert tribes gathered at Global Village – a seasonal cultural festival outside Dubai – to perform the traditional Yolah dance, a musical dedication to the UAE’s Prince Fazza. After more than 5 minutes of rifle spinning and rhythmic stepping, the group successfully established a new world record for the world’s largest Yolah dance ever.
The previous day, the world's largest Kandoora – a traditional tunic-style garment – was unveiled at Dubai’s Winter Shopping Festival. A local garment maker and his fabric cutter collaborated to produce the giant piece of clothing, which measured a massive 82 feet 1 inch in length, in just 12 days. When you consider that many of the Yolah performers’ Kandooras are typically less than 2 metres long, the skill necessary to create the scaled-up version is obvious.
Performing royal dances and assembling grand-scale Kandooras can work up a king-sized appetite! Appropriately enough, Marco Polo Hotels of Dubai unveiled a 22 foot pair of world-class, record-breaking chopsticks that same day. Now, if only someone could create the world’s largest Arabic mezze to devour with them...
13 March 2008