Dressed in colourful traditional garb, Alice Muthoni and Frida Njery, members of Kenya's national dance team, greet visitors to their national pavilion at the Global Village each night.
The gates, marked by huge tusks joined together at the top, offer an authentic touch of safari life to passersby.
To top it all, giant replicas of animals, including a tiger sitting on top of the stage (with one foot hanging over the performers), decorate the pavilion.
"Global Village is a fascinating place," said Muthoni, 23, from Masai Mara, in north Kenya.
"I enjoy watching nearly every culture in the world come together at the Village. It's like a rainbow of colours here."
Moody Awori, Kenya's Vice-President, inaugurated the pavilion on Saturday night.
"I am quite happy with the strong presence of Kenya in Global Village in Dubai this year. We hope to invite more people to visit Kenya, to see how we have managed to preserve our wildlife," said Awori, a staunch advocate of a total hunting ban.
Tourism is one of the country's top dollar earners, after agricultural exports.
Jackson Masyula, a 50-year-old Kenyan wood carver in the pavilion, was greeted by Awori during his visit. It may be prudent to allow limited hunting to cull the population of animals that sometimes destroy the crops of farmers, Masyula said.
"If the population of animals in the wild grows beyond control and ends up destroying the farmers' crops, it may be wise to introduce culling, which would bring dollars to the government and the people.
"With careful monitoring, hunting can also be sustainable," said Masyula, who is vice-chairman of the Akamba Handicraft Industry Cooperative Society.
Jalal Balala, the pavilion's organiser and executive director of tea and coffee distributor Al Azizah Foodstuff Company, said he favours a total hunting ban.
"If you kill all of the animals, what else will be left?" he said.
With this year's pavilion, he also hopes to help further promote tourism to Kenya from Dubai. The two countries are now connected by direct flights.
The 750 square-metre pavilion in the global village houses 35 stalls offering a wide variety of products.
The products and services featured are handicrafts, traditional woodcarvings of Masai warriors, animal figurines (from Dh20 to Dh45), foodstuffs, flowers, fruits and vegetables, belts, soapstone carvings, necklaces made of animal bones and horns, wall dcor, drums, leather chairs, bangles, coasters, glass items, traditional musical instruments, hair sticks, wooden spoons and forks, ear rings, bowls with animal designs, knitted wear, henna, leather slippers, glass etchings and paintings.
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