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Location Scouting Report #4: Gold Coffee and the Water of Life

After lunch, we went straight back to the bus.
The next place we would be scouting in was the five star hotel called "Emirates Palace".

"Emirates Palace" is a luxury hotel that truly lives up to the word "palace" in its name!!
Its interior is absolutely dazzling. The floor, the walls, the ceiling, everything is glittering like gold!
If the "Sheikh Zayed Mosque" was a marble palace, this is a gold palace!

The scouting team would of course be staying the night here!
...or so we'd wish, but we were unfortunately just here to visit.
We gathered a lot of material on the luxurious interior, and since we were already there anyway, we dropped by the hotel café, another famous tourist spot.

The café's specialty is something called "Gold Coffee", cappuccino with flakes of gold put in it, which made us feel a bit upper-class.
We were sitting here in a hotel made of marble and gold and the coffee we drank was a delicious cappuccino that tasted of gold.



Also, this hotel features the world's first vending machine for gold, called "GOLD to go"!
Since the market price for gold constantly fluctuates, this vending machine also has a system displaying the current gold price, which updates in real time.

One member of the team is a newlywed, and he started considering making a purchase "as a present for the wife!" as the others cheered him on, but he managed to keep his cool...
In the end, we left the hotel without anyone buying anything.

After this rest at the air-conditioned "Emirates Palace", the scouting continued.
Searching for places we could base the streets of "Désser City", the movie's setting, on, we walked around central Abu Dhabi.
After seeing the view from "Corniche Road", we walked across the modern park space of "Lake Park" to "World Trade Center Souk".



After a quick study of the structures and appearances of the buildings in the modern marketplace "World Trade Center Souk", we continued on to "Ittihad Square".

"Ittihad Square" is a mysterious park lined with giant, ivory white monuments like a "coffee pot" and an "incense burner".
These monuments are modeled after presents traditionally given by wealthy Arabs.



Finally, we set off for the last place we were going to scout today, "Sheikh Zayed Stadium".
This is a colossal stadium that accommodates about 50 000 people and hosts numerous regular-season soccer games, as well as concerts, motor shows and the like.

The field is made of genuine grass. Japanese stadiums supposedly won't always let you onto the field, but we had no problems with that here.
The art staff on our team was thrilled and, after walking onto it, started snapping pictures of the field surface.



We finished our scouting at the stadium at 5pm.
We then set off towards our hotel in Abu Dhabi, our first scouting day successfully completed.

We were completely exhausted, with just the slightest bit of movement conjuring up a stream of sweat!
Throughout the day, the scouting team had started referring to mineral water as "The Water of Life".
This first day truly made us realize the importance of proper hydration.



Source: http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/pokemovie_ch/?p=349