MyWorld: Water Park
This is part of a water park for kids that is visible above the high wall from the outside on Sultan Street. Women and teenaged girls are of course not allowed to swim, but children and teenaged boys can swim and have fun in the sun and water. The water park is attached to a plaza that offers shopping, a restaurant, arts and crafts, and more entertainment for kids. Mothers can watch from an elevated position behind air conditioned glass windows inside the plaza.
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Tags: business, entertainment, family, Jeddah, leisure, shop, water, women
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July 1, 2009 at 5:28 am
It looks like it would be so much fun, and so sad at that same time. Like hold candy in front of a diabetic.
July 1, 2009 at 3:12 am
This would drive me crazy. I am a sucker for waterslides, and the thought of not being able to use them simply because I am the wrong gender would be very depressing, indeed!
June 30, 2009 at 10:37 pm
This mother might not ever let her children go if she could not enjoy it as well! Maybe I would, but it would be so hard to watch all the fun and wet and be sitting there all wrapped up. Maybe they’re used to it.
June 30, 2009 at 7:43 pm
golly gee…now did i even think you all would be able to enjoy the summer fun…
great shot though.
take care.
June 30, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Women and girls have to just swelter???
June 30, 2009 at 9:36 pm
“Sweltering” in the brutal heat is one of the things that women are free to do here with no problem!!!
June 30, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Poor girls! But it looks fun for those who are allowed.
June 30, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Great, interesting shot as always! Do feel like the others though that while the park looks familiar, the idea of women not being able to participate is little hard to accept and I, too, find it difficult to comprehend the lack of freedom for women there.
June 30, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Very interesting- a waterpark only for young children and teenaged boys! It’s hard to comprehend the lack of freedom women in Saudi Arabia have. Thanks for this post.
June 30, 2009 at 3:44 pm
So familiar– the waterpark; yet, so foreign– not for women.
Can’t they have a day for ladies only?
June 30, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I don’t think that it would be possible – I think they only have male employees so women would never be allowed to participate there.
June 30, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Hi Suzie. Thanks for another glimpse into the Arab world. So very different. The West experience some of this like a hundred years ago. Reading a good book that deals with women’s issues right now. It is
LOVING FRANK, by Nancy Horan and it a novel about one of the mistress’s of Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect. I think you would like it.
June 30, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for the book recommendation, Joann. I’m going to be picking up a few books while I’m here in the states, if I don’t get one of those electronic readers.
June 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm
This must be so hard not being able to participate. I can not imagine watching from the sidelines. You took me by surprise again showing something so familiar.
June 30, 2009 at 3:24 am
Looks like fun, but I’d be upset not to be able to play too.