Hookah

 

Sweet smoke, colourful vessels filled with water, long spliced pipes and cinder make the hookah that is the real holiday of the taste and senses.

Hookah is one of the most famous attractions for tourists in United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Turkey. But its history is longer and is connected not only with the eastern exotics. Smoking hookah turned into the philosophy of satisfaction, meditation and ritual comprehending of the life.

The first hookahs were made in India. But their modern look was formed in Turkey. And the culture of smoking hookah has origins in Turkey and smoking hookah was brought to Europe by European nomads.

First hookahs were made up from the shell of coconut. After it the construction of hookahs was improved and the production of hookahs became the craft of the artists. And they were the first to make four main elements of hookahs: mouthpiece, top, pipe and the vessel filled with water. Ages passed and people improved the production of hookahs. And hookahs became not only the functional value but also artistic one. And it became an integral part of the eastern culture, history and traditions. And smoking the hookah was the whole saint ritual.

And people say that smoking the cigarette is the sign of nervous state, smoking the cigarette with the holder is the way to show off, the pipe shows the complexes of people and the hookah demonstrates only one thing: the person is not in a hurry and is philosophically oriented. It is impossible to smoke it running, it doesn't accept any games. It is the thing that allows thinking over everything carefully without hurrying.