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Shocking But True
30 May, 2006
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Park Avenue Style Awaits the Wealthy at Tent City |
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MINA, Jan 9 — From the inside, it looks like a modern, luxury apartment in Manhattan, complete with Swedish furniture and indoor plumbing. From the outside, it is just another tent in a Hajj camp in the middle of the holy site of Mina, Saudi Arabia. Five-star service is what the pilgrim who has rented this ornamental tent is going to receive when he and his entourage arrive at the Adwaia Al-Iman pilgrims’ camp. It is not common to see such a tent next to those of the commoners in Mina or in any other holy site during the Hajj season. But, nowadays, some companies are betting there are wealthy pilgrims eager to shell out prices far greater than those of any luxury executive suite on Park Avenue. Tariq Saeed Hussein, the owner of the company that operates the service, told Arab News that this luxurious tent was constructed for a VIP pilgrim who wanted a special and comfortable place during his Hajj journey. The interior designing, partitioning and construction of the company’s showcase tent took three days. The process included building an internal restroom and setting high ceilings. “It is more like building a small room than setting a tent, since providing the internal bathrooms requires heavy plumbing jobs, Comments
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