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My first morning in Kuwait. We had landed from our cross water flight from DC, and it was really too dark to see much. We arrved at the hotel and sleepily shuffled to our rooms and crashed. However, being in a brand new time zone on top of already having deprived sleeping habits (4 hours average) - I was the first of the gang to wake. Much to my surprise, the top shot is what I saw from my window. The sun comes up at 3:30am over the Liberation Tower (Right) from my view in the Safat tower's "Swiss-Belhotel".

So, having just crossed the big gulp with a few pelican cases full of gear, my first to-do item was to build the 30lbs Red One rig and make sure everything was intact from the flight. Lensing check, sensor check, batteries charging, and we're good to go. Mounted the drive, and off I went to explore by foot in a strange middle-eastern city with $50,000 on my shoulder. Kuwait had been extremely westernised, post-liberation. I had read up on the history points before leaving, so I didn't even hesitate to venture off alone.

In fact, it was quite the amazing experience. Hardly anyone was out. It felt like I was the only one alive in the city. I walked by the Grand Mosque, to the Arabian Gulf coast and just took in the morning air. The hot morning air. It was just rounding out to 4AM and it was already in the mid 90s with extremely dry heat. Peaceful, though.