{"id":6015,"date":"2014-08-14T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:58:49","slug":"instawalk-quick-trip-sheikh-zayed-mosque-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/08\/instawalk-quick-trip-sheikh-zayed-mosque-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: A Quick Trip to Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>on the Dubai DO with <a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/pointssummary\">Points Summary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/travelsummary.com\/\">Travel Summary<\/a> (and someone else who doesn&#8217;t summarize)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>unfortunately, i was only able to go very briefly to the grand(iose) Sheikh Zayed Mosque and only got pictures of the exterior, but it was worth it! it&#8217;s currently the sixth-largest mosque in the world and the largest in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>and yes, it&#8217;s quite impressive, even if you only spend a few minutes outside of it. (but i have heard, and seen photos that prove, going inside is a must-do &#8212; i wish i had the time to! tour schedules and opening hours are on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.szgmc.ae\/en\/mosque-opening-hours\">website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"For use in a blog post by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14731625320\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3919\/14731625320_978bafd2ff_c.jpg\" alt=\"For use in a blog post\" width=\"800\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>sidebar: dress code<\/strong> there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.szgmc.ae\/en\/img\/Mosque-Manners.jpg\">great dress code image<\/a> the mosque has &#8212; this place is more conservative than others you may have been to. in summary: guys, wear long pants; short sleeves are OK, but nothing that has your shoulders\/upper arms exposed. women, pretty much everything has to be covered in <strong>loose-fitting clothes<\/strong>. for both guys and gals, if you are not properly attired, you will be directed to a room where you exchange a form of ID (not your passport, for some reason) for an appropriate covering: an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abaya\">abaya<\/a> for the gals (with an attached hood you have to wear up; it doesn&#8217;t cover your face) and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=kandora&amp;es_sm=93&amp;tbm=isch\">kandora<\/a> (just think of it as a white coverall robe) for the guys. this is a free service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"500\">\n<p>Also, in a borrowed kandoora(?) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/O1BwWR8tCb\">pic.twitter.com\/O1BwWR8tCb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonk\/statuses\/499904872905314304\">August 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upload by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14729606128\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3925\/14729606128_612f873ee0_o.jpg\" alt=\"upload\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upload by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14915847082\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3881\/14915847082_3b63f8cf96_o.jpg\" alt=\"upload\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upload by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14915838582\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3871\/14915838582_9083948109_o.jpg\" alt=\"upload\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upload by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14893203156\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3875\/14893203156_3902267429_o.jpg\" alt=\"upload\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upload by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/14729515619\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3856\/14729515619_666fe603fb_o.jpg\" alt=\"upload\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the Dubai DO with Points Summary and Travel Summary (and someone else who doesn&#8217;t summarize) unfortunately, i was only able to go very briefly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Instawalk: A Quick Trip to Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[988,1135,1075,987,760],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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